Comments on: Haiti: Election talk http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/01/26/haiti-election-talk/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:02:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jean Jacques Dessalines http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/01/26/haiti-election-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-23963 Jean Jacques Dessalines Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:44:54 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=5924#comment-23963 Why is Lawrence Summer's not using any of Harvard's endowment to help the country progress, with 50 million dollars, Harvard could establish a research university in Haiti in return that any technology developed will be Harvard's property. Also Harvard has the its Kennedy School, yet I don't see one Harvard scientist in Haiti, helping yet if it was aids Harvard would been there or if it was a potential cure for cancer as depicted in the movie Serpent of the Rainbows, it would have been there.It's all about the money.Chinese students who are poor, can come to the US to get PH.Ds yet many inner city students can' afford to go to college or have to resort to community colleges. Why is Lawrence Summer’s not using any of Harvard’s endowment to help the country progress, with 50 million dollars, Harvard could establish a research university in Haiti in return that any technology developed will be Harvard’s property. Also Harvard has the its Kennedy School, yet I don’t see one Harvard scientist in Haiti, helping yet if it was aids Harvard would been there or if it was a potential cure for cancer as depicted in the movie Serpent of the Rainbows, it would have been there.It’s all about the money.Chinese students who are poor, can come to the US to get PH.Ds yet many inner city students can’ afford to go to college or have to resort to community colleges.

]]> By: Tony Bennett http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/01/26/haiti-election-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-23491 Tony Bennett Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:08:09 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=5924#comment-23491 Rene Preval is not the interim President but a Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections. He and Charles Henri Baker are the front-runners in the race. Preval's camp is trying to cause controversy by focusing on the color issue to gain momentum over Charles Baker who happens to be light-skinned in a predominantly black country. He reverts to the times of the white colonists in the 1700's who owned and mistreated the slaves. Rene Preval is not the interim President but a Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections. He and Charles Henri Baker are the front-runners in the race.

Preval’s camp is trying to cause controversy by focusing on the color issue to gain momentum over Charles Baker who happens to be light-skinned in a predominantly black country. He reverts to the times of the white colonists in the 1700’s who owned and mistreated the slaves.

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