Hope for Haiti Now: Best performances of the night
(UPDATED, had to jettison the MTV embed videos, which play automatically. Also, note that the male look of the night was “the beard.”) Congrats to MTV, George Clooney, Wyclef Jean and all the celebs...
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Haiti’s official death toll tops 150,000, aid effort shifts toward health,...
The crisis in Haiti: focus shifts to housing, health, and protecting orphaned children. The stunning figure comes as the Haiti government confirms that 111,481 bodies have been buried, not counting...
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Friday round-up: prefab homes for Haiti, Alito and Obama not friends
President Obama goes into the lion’s den today, to meet with House Republicans who have already made clear they’re not planning to cooperate with him, because they still see political advantage in...
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Morning clicks: O-Bibi photo-op watch, suing Arizona, Florida’s Corleone utility
President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, and then they’ll answer questions from pool reporters. The meeting is being played at the Wapo as a show of unity, whose main...
View Article(Video) Wyclef Jean: ‘if I was president’ (and as a matter of fact, he’s...
Was Wyclef planning his presidential move when he made this song at the height of the Obama-Hillary Clinton primary? Let the speculation (and the campaign) begin… BTW, before people laugh off Wyclef’s...
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Will Wyclef Jean make the presidential cut?
First came the story that he’d gone into hiding amid death threats; and that he had yet more IRS problems, and on Thursday, questions were raised over whether Wyclef was eligible to run for president...
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Sen. Tom Coburn blocking Haiti relief funds
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who is also a doctor, is blocking more than $1 billion relief funds the U.S. pledged to Haiti after the devastating January earthquake. With more than a million people...
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Read this (and weep): Haiti’s girls exploited in Dominican Republic
From the Miami Herald, a report that’s as disturbing and hard to read as any you’ve heard. But it’s also one that must be read. Haiti’s children, and especially its girls, are being trafficked, often...
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Shadows of things past: ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier back in Haiti
Haitian dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and his son, Jean-Claude, known as "Baby Doc" in undated photo. Jean Claude Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc” and the former dictator of Haiti and son of the...
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Bob Barr’s new gig: repping ‘Baby Doc’
So what’s a guy who spent much of the 90s pursuing President Bill Clinton in search of a way to undo his election via impeachment do with his time, now that he’s out of Congress (and safely removed...
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