Mark Schneider
Mark Schneider
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Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.
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Elections are clearly not the whole solution. But you can't get a legitimate government that can begin to deal with Haiti's problems and build something out of this failed state without them.
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As far as I am concerned, this is a totally bone-headed idea. As it stands now, there are way too many 'no turn on red' signs, most of which serve no obvious purpose. As a pedestrian, I've experienced almost no problems with the turn-on-red law.
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Even with all the problems, nobody here is saying they want them to leave -- on the left, right, or center. They are needed here not for one year, or two years, but for the next 10 years.
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You can't govern in Haiti alone. You need sufficient cooperation from the losers so that parliament can function and the government can deal with the fundamental problems that makes Haiti the last on every list of human security issues in the hemisphere.
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I think that's what we're all trying to gather. We've got one proposed licensee saying, 'We'll give you a free arena,' and another saying, 'I can only give you a first-class casino.' Somewhere in between would be the truth, I think.
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I think these results are really unexpected. I think it is a wake-up call to the research and university community.
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Keeping one hand dry and one hand wet is pretty elementary. Otherwise, you get 'Barney Rubble' fingers.
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My client is a medical doctor, practicing in Grafton for the last 10 years. He's an American citizen, he's a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and he was with his 71-year-old, diabetic, really sick sister.
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We're trying to keep the doors open here, ... Everybody's been promised this money, but we need it to operate.
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The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation. It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy.
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I am surprised, honored and humbled to enter the Wall of Fame.
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At this point the entire transition is at risk. Drug traffickers don't want a functioning, effective government with a functioning, effective police force and customs. They have their hooks in the police, and they have their hooks in parts of the transitional government.
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At this point it would be a very polarizing and divisive event that could fatally damage the effort to move Haiti forward.