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...especially difficult for small performing groups to become visible amidst larger, better-publicized productions. “I definitely felt the pressure this year, and we lost a portion of our usual audience because of these other shows. In the future I think we have to work on our PR campaign,” Driscoll said. “This is something I plan to discuss with the officers in the coming weeks, so we can make some important changes before next year...
...happy to see both Clinton and Bush in Haiti and trusts they will help make a difference. "We wouldn't find anything if it wasn't for foreigners," says St. Leger. "We've been here for three months outside this Presidential Palace, and [Haitian President René] Préval has never come to see us." (See a TIME video with former President Clinton speaking on what Haiti needs...
...they toured campsites outside the Presidential Palace, Haitian citizens and foreign and local journalists swarmed the formers heads of state while Secret Service agents and Haitian police attempted to create a perimeter. In the midst of the frenzy, Clinton looked around and asked, "Where's President Préval?" (See an aerial view of the destruction in Haiti...
...brief interview with TIME this week in Port-au-Prince, Préval, whose presidency will end next February, because he is not eligible to run for another five-year term, insisted that "elections are a necessity" - an essential condition for Haiti's post-quake recovery as well as long-term development. "Elections may not happen tomorrow, but they will happen before I leave," he said. "We have 11 months. We have to start to plan as quickly as possible." (See a pictorial history of Haiti's misery...
That still doesn't solve the issue of who will replace Préval, who insists that he won't serve beyond next February. And some Haiti watchers worry that the "interfacing" Williams mentions is just another way of saying international NGOs would keep running things in the country, as they were essentially doing even before the earthquake. That model has "gone nowhere," says Robert Maguire, a Haiti expert affiliated with Trinity Washington University and the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. Despite the post-quake chaos, "it's time for [Haiti] to become a state that serves its people...