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...rule of law? Not in Haiti. When Louis Jodel Chamblain handed himself over to Haitian police on April 22, it was 10 years to the day after the paramilitary squad he once helped direct massacred at least 15 people in the seaside slum of Raboteau. The victims, many of whom were tortured and made to lie in open sewers before being shot, were supporters of then Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a 1991 military coup. U.S. troops restored Aristide to power in 1994, and Chamblain, who fled Haiti, was convicted in absentia the following year...
Horrific as the pictures are, observers for the U.N. and the Organization of American States returned from Gonaives last week with even grimmer detail. In the predawn hours of April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon...
...Harvard doesn't have a good track record in landing top scholars. Last year Afro-Am sought to tenure University of Wisconsin Professor Nellie Y. McKay and Princeton Religion Professors Cornel R. West '74 and Albert J. Raboteau. All three rejected Harvard's overtures...
...boycott will be enough to diversify the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Even President Derek C. Bok could not just snap his fingers and diversify the Faculty. Minority and women scholars first must accept tenure offers. The recent tenure rejections of Nellie Y. McKay, Albert J. Raboteau and Cornell R. West '74 demonstrate that Harvard must make itself more desirable to outside scholars before they will come. In the meantime, the administration should be praised for its recent efforts to revitalize Afro-American Studies through joint tenure offers. We encourage the administration to keep trying...
When McKay heard that Harvard had offered positions to Cornel R. West '74 and Albert J. Raboteau, both of Princeton, she said she might withdraw her rejection--and once again consider joining what now has a chance to become a real department...