By Aaron Oppenheimer
According to the guy who maintains his instruments, Eddie van Halen wants his guitar to "sound like nut butter." And he means it. The words musicians use to describe music are a special language, and those who swing the electric guitar are virtuosos of this sounds-like-a-non-sequitur-but-isn’t argot.


An electric guitar, by itself, sounds like nothing—quiet...

A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday Juanary 12, 2010, inflicting a catastrophe on the impoverished Caribbean nation. Here are some facts about Haiti:

• The country of Haiti makes up the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean. Hispanola is between Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the eastern two-thirds of the island is the Dominican Republic.
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By Shaquille O'Neal

When the January 12 earthquake hit Haiti, I watched hour upon hour of coverage on CNN. Like everyone else in the world, I saw images that were among the most horrifying caused by a natural disaster in our time.

I had never been to Haiti at the time. Like many, I have friends and even family members of Haitian descent. But what occurred to me and most others...

Authors Dr. Félix Ulloa and Pierre-André Guillaume present the approach to managing electoral costs in this ninth of nine case studies courtesy of the IFES-UNDP led Cost of Registraiton and Elections (CORE) Project.


This case study is based on information from various publications and reports of international bodies, including the Organization of American States (OAS), UNDP and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), on the...

1987 CONSTITUTION OF HAITI
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PREAMBLE

The Haitian people proclaim this constitution in order to:
Ensure their inalienable and imprescriptible rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; in conformity with the Act of Independence of 1804 and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1948.
Constitute a socially just, economically free, and politically independent Haitian nation.
Establish a strong...