New Orleans The Haitian non-relief story is heartbreaking: unknown, unnamed victims in mass graves and $100 per day picking up dead bodies in the street. What can we make of the future from this catastrophe just off our shores? A Smith College professor named Kevin Rozario with a book about disasters in his resume actually …
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Help for Haiti
New Orleans At a candidates forum last night in New Orleans with the memory of Katrina still in our hearts and in the mouth of every questioner from Local 100 or A Community Voice (formerly Louisiana ACORN), it was appropriate that the forum started with a prayer and made the call for help for Haiti. …
Guaranteed Tips and Happy Costa Ricans
San Jose Nicholas Kristof did a column in the Times in his usual didactic, rah-rah fashion trumpeting the happiness of Costa Rican people (http://bit.ly/6i0csw). He cites a couple of different “surveys” where Costa Ricans self-evaluate and cobbles this together with the point that in 1949 the government shutdown its army and investigated more in education …