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-- A March 21 Page One article about the health-care victory's potential costs for Democratic politicians quoted former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) as saying that President Obama and congressional Democrats "will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic...
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| Yesterday | In Haiti, cooperation among aid groups is unprecedented | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Landina Seignon's arm had been removed an inch below her shoulder. Like most performed in the week after the earthquake, hers was a "guillotine amputation" -- a straight cut through flesh and bone that left little cushion for an artificial arm.
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| Yesterday | Haiti earthquake relief efforts are still falling short | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Nearly one month after a powerful earthquake brought this country to a halt, Haiti is tumbling headlong through a crisis that has not begun to abate, with evidence everywhere that current relief efforts are falling short.
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| Yesterday | Haiti's Grand-Rue struggles to recover after quake | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- As long as anyone can remember, the Grand-Rue was the commercial heart of Haiti, a string of stores in the center of Port-au-Prince beating to the rhythm of a people for whom scraping by was the main national industry.
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| Yesterday | Haiti's day of mourning mixes prayer, anger at government | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Reeling from the earthquake that devastated their country one month ago, Haitians have turned to their vivid and sometimes quirky spiritual life in a search not only for consolation but also for an explanation of why such a catastrophe was visited upon them.
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| Yesterday | U.N. coordinator takes staff to task for management of relief efforts | |
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations' top humanitarian relief coordinator has scolded his lieutenants for failing to adequately manage the relief effort in Haiti, saying that an uneven response in the month after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake has undercut confidence in the United Nations' ab...
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| Yesterday | Tens of thousands of Haitians still lack adequate shelter | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Helta Exanville spent the night in tears, cradling her infant son as a tropical rain drummed on the tarp-and-tin roof overhead. Water leaked relentlessly through the seams, she said, invading her little shelter, soaking her clothes, turning the earthen floor into mud and, in...
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| Yesterday | Under the world's greatest cities, deadly plates | |
Megacities are something new on the planet. Earthquakes are something very old. The two are a lethal combination, as seen in the recent tragedy in Port-au-Prince, where more than 200,000 people perished -- a catastrophe that scientists say is certain to be repeated somewhere, and probably soon, w...
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| Yesterday | Violinist's nimble fingers slowed as he recovers from injuries in Haiti quake | |
MIAMI -- As darkness fell on what was left of his music school in Haiti, Romel Joseph found a distraction for his pain and fear. He imagined himself performing Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. His right hand gracefully slid the bow; his left hand caressed the violin's neck as his fingers glided alo...
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| Yesterday | Hillary Clinton urges Latin America to fight drug corruption | |
MEXICO CITY -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for Latin America to fight drug corruption in a regional swing that ended Friday in Guatemala, days after that country's drug czar and national police chief were jailed on suspicion of leading a police ring that stole cocaine from dr...
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| Yesterday | Haitian president renews call for direct aid from U.S. | |
Haitian President René Préval pleaded Wednesday for U.S. help plugging a multimillion-dollar budget gap caused by the Jan. 12 earthquake but said he got a cool reception from congressional leaders wary of handing over cash.
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| Yesterday | Haiti to unveil $3.9B restructuring plan at the U.N. | |
UNITED NATIONS -- Haitian President René Préval will unveil a $3.9 billion plan Wednesday to begin radically reshaping his country's post-earthquake economy and infrastructure, according to a Haitian reconstruction action plan.
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| Yesterday | Nation Digest | |
The U.S. Border Patrol says it has arrested more than 100 people from Haiti for allegedly entering Vermont illegally from Canada since a massive earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation.
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| Yesterday | Many of Haiti's most-wanted on the loose after earthquake | |
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Early one morning this month, in the buzz saw that is downtown Port-au-Prince, three men approached a police checkpoint, firing automatic weapons. When the shooting finally stopped, a seven-year veteran of the Haitian National Police lay dead, his body riddled with bullets.
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| Yesterday | Seven Honduran broadcasters slain since March 1 | |
Honduran television reporter Jorge Alberto "Georgino" Orellana had just left the station where he hosted his own show when a man stepped from the shadows, shot him dead and vanished.
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