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Less successfully, the characters of Timon (Tyler Muree) and Pumbaa (Ben Lipitz) dutifully serve their function of lighthearted comic relief, but both actors appear to be consciously straining to imitate the precise vocal accents and delivery style of their cinematic predecessors (Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, respectively). Worse, Zazu’s (Tony Freeman) over-acted comic antics and Rafiki’s (Phindile Mkhize) bouts of verbal incomprehensibility quickly grow tiresome...
Even where the distribution was going smoothly, overburdened relief workers weren't always able to explain how and when to eat the cookies, officially referred to as biscuits. Some people scarfed down their entire five-pack quota in a single meal, leaving them feeling ill; others thought they should eat only one pack a day. "There's a lot of confusion out there," said Raymond Chevalier of the Adventist Development & Relief Agency. "But even if people are getting some cookies to supplement any other food they can find, that will keep them going...
...Clinton before him, Obama has been criticized for misreading his mandate, spending his political capital on health care reform at a time when millions fear for their jobs. It was as if FDR had devoted his first Hundred Days to promoting Social Security instead of a smorgasbord of emergency relief and recovery measures. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...
...plan," one that "won't just rebuild what was destroyed but present the Haiti that we're all dreaming of" 10 years down the line, he tells TIME. Yet the only dream Haitians have right now is of something waterproof over their heads - shelter that their officials and foreign relief agencies seem unable to deliver in appreciable quantities more than a month after the earthquake. "Clearly, they're waiting for more from their government and the international community," Bellerive concedes. "When you still have 10% of your population living in the streets, when basic human shelter problems aren't resolved...
...streets are passable now, many businesses are humming again and the vibrant color of Haitian food markets has begun to compete with the gray ocean of crushed concrete. But so far only about a quarter of the 1.2 million Haitians who lost homes have been given tents (which relief agencies argue are scarce right now on the global market) or plastic sheeting (which those agencies now say is more practical than tents). Sanitation is even scarcer, causing health officials to raise dire warnings about widespread disease. Amid increasing Haitian anger and desperation, the Washington Post reported last week that...