The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 2004:
OBLIGATIONS IN HAITI
Mar 01, 2004 ... MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE'S RESIGNATIONYESTERDAY AS HAITI'S ELECTED PRESIDENT WAS A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRACY. ITWAS A DEFEAT THAT THE UNITED STATES, SO EAGER TO INJECT DEMOCRACYINTO THE MIDDLE EAST, COULD HAVE PREVENTED AS RECENTLY AS LAST WEEK,WHEN ARISTIDE ASKED FOR ...
JUDY COLLINS'S CATHARTIC LOOK AT SUICIDE
Mar 01, 2004; ... Singer Judy Collins came from a family of four children. She onlyhad one child herself - a son named Clark, who committed suicide 11years ago. The loss shattered her, as it would any parent, butCollins has since doggedly resumed her life and written anextraordinary new book that details ...
GOLDEN MOMENTS
Mar 01, 2004; ... No sooner did the red carpet in front of the Kodak Theatre openfor business than the fun began:6:23 p.m. Joan Rivers (above)starts her annual gaffe parade, shouting at red-carpet first-timerKeisha Castle-Hughes that Hughes is not the youngest best actressnominee ever, she's just one ...
PLUMBER, ELECTRICIAN... DIGITICIAN? AS HOMES GET MORE WIRED, A NEW TRADE EMERGES
Mar 01, 2004; ... Paul Gosselin is battling the mother of all viruses.Furiouslyclicking his way through the operating system on his customer'spersonal computer, he squashes cookies, pop-up ad files, and viruseswith abandon. Then he encounters the big one. Gosselin's antivirusprogram triggers a ...
BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD DELIGHTS FILMMAKER MORRIS
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOS ANGELES - It was difficult to tell last night whetherCambridge filmmaker Errol Morris was relieved or just surprised bywinning the best documentary Oscar for "The Fog of War." Backstage after picking up his first Academy Award, theunderstated Morris - flanked by the film's ...
CHAMPAGNE AND FIZZ
Mar 01, 2004; ... The acceptance speeches may have featured purple prose, but it wasnot a night for purple gowns. After all the candy colors Hollywoodstars have been wearing to the awards shows leading up to the Oscars,many of them opted instead for washed-out tones last night and leftthe pink dress to ...
ENFORCING THE LAW OF AVERAGES
Mar 01, 2004; ... [A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.][CORRECTION - DATE: Tuesday, March 2, 2004: Correction: Because ofan editing error, the Go! column in yesterday's Living/ Arts sectioncarried the wrong byline. It was written by Michael Saunders.] Today's Go! brain teaser: What ...
AEROSMITH STARS SOAR IN BLUESY BENEFIT
Mar 01, 2004; ... ARLINGTON - Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton nailed it when he toldthe crowd, "It's just great to be in the company of seriousmusicians." Indeed, it was. Hamilton and Aerosmith drummer JoeyKramer showed their Boston roots by joining an exciting blues jamwith James Montgomery and Johnny A ....
`MYSTIC RIVER' ACTORS, BACKERS, AND CREATORS HOPE FOR BIG NIGHT
Mar 01, 2004; ... `MYSTIC' MAN EVEN BEFORE HE WALKED OUT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FILMBUREAU'S BLACK-TIE BASH LAST NIGHT AT THE WANG CENTER TO GRAB ASMOKE, TOM GUIRY LOOKED LIKED HIS "MYSTIC RIVER" CO-STAR, SEAN PENN.BUT THEN GUIRY, WHO PLAYED BRENDAN HARRIS IN THE MOVIE, IS JUSTGETTING STARTED IN THE ...
JUST AS SCRIPTED ROBBINS, ZELLWEGER, `RETURN OF THE KING' WIN EXPECTED OSCARS
Mar 01, 2004; ... Abiblical epic rules the box office, a quasi-biblical epic stoodpoised to sweep the Oscars, and classic couture ruled the red carpetoutside the Kodak Theatre. It seemed as though a time warp hadswallowed Hollywood and whisked the movie world back to 1953, butlast night's 76th Academy ...
N.E. CONSERVATORY RAISES $350,000 FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
Mar 01, 2004; ... The New England Conservatory's "A Feast of Music" at the FairmontCopley Plaza Hotel in Boston Saturday night raised some $350,000 forNEC's ...
SHOW'S PREDICTABILITY WAS CRYSTAL-CLEAR FROM OUTSET
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Oscars brought back Billy Crystal for his eighth hosting jobso that he could do his safe, old-style shtick. And they got exactlywhat they ordered last night, as he delivered a very predictableopening that sounded a lot like his monologues from years past, withdifferent titles. There ...
THE WALKMEN KICK IT UP WITH MENACING ROCK SET
Mar 01, 2004; ... Seeing the Walkmen live has the visceral kick of running into anold love and being hit with a wave of uneasy attraction. The fans atthe group's sold-out show downstairs at the Middle East on Fridaynight looked as if they were experiencing just such a moment, as theydirected their ...
SOMETIMES IT'S HARDER SECOND TIME AROUND
Mar 01, 2004; ... The first company that Greg Erman started was a speedy success. Hestarted it in 1996 with about a million in funding, and sold it thefollowing year for $13 million -- before the product had even beenlaunched.When I first met Erman in 1999, he seemed irked that ithad all happened so ...
MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES RAISE LEVEL OF NATALIE WOOD BIOPIC
Mar 01, 2004; ... It has become an unspoken rule that Hollywood biopics shouldinclude a demented witch with bad hair to rival the Joan Crawford of"Mommie Dearest." And so in tonight's "The Mystery of Natalie Wood,"at 8 on ABC, we have Mommie severest, sans wire hangers but withtragically tacky bangs, ...
ST. JOHN'S DIDN'T SEE IT COMING
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOWELL - St. John's Prep coach Bob Marinelli couldn't tell whathappened. Arlington Catholic coach Dan Shine couldn't see it either. Late in the third period, Cougars junior Pat Noonan, backed upagainst the right-wing boards, lifted a wobbly wrist shot at the net.The knuckleball ...
CATHOLIC MEMORIAL FOLLOWING WELL-WORN PATH
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOWELL - Catholic Memorial coach Bill Hanson likes to rate each ofhis teams against those that came before. However, the longtime coachacknowledged after last night's 6-0 thrashing of Duxbury in Super 8pool play at Tsongas Arena, he'll wait until the end of the seasonbefore he puts the ...
EAGLES GROUND BELMONT
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOWELL - This game was downright ugly. In the second blowout of this year's MIAA Super 8 tournament,second-seeded BC High clobbered seventh-seeded Belmont, 10-2, lastnight at Tsongas Arena. The Eagles broke the game open in the first four minutes. By theend of the first ...
OPTIMISM RUNS DEEP BRUINS' ROSTER SEEMS BOLSTERED
Mar 01, 2004; ... In the next couple of months, the Bruins will find out if they'repretenders or contenders. No matter where they finish in the Eastern Conference playoffhunt, unless they win at least a round in the postseason, they knowthere isn't likely to be a buzz around the team. However, if ...
CELTICS RAP TORONTO AGAIN
Mar 01, 2004; ... TORONTO - The standings may make the logic seem, well, illogical.The Celtics are on the outside looking in as far as the playoffs go,but yesterday, before their hold-your-nose-and-swallow 91-82 victoryover the Raptors, interim coach John Carroll was talking ...
KNIGHTS SLAY GREEN DRAGONS
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOWELL - Duxbury had played even its best opponents to close gamesthis season. Coming off last year's five-win season, the GreenDragons executed a system to near perfection and came away with 17wins to earn the eighth seed in the Super 8. They hadn't faced Catholic ...
UNSETTLING TIMES FOR ATKINS
Mar 01, 2004; ... TORONTO - It hasn't been the easiest stretch for Chucky Atkins.There was the move from Detroit after he was traded to the CelticsFeb. 19. And then, a week ago, he learned one of his closest familyfriends, a cousin named Bartel Coleman, was killed in a motorcycleaccident in ...
PLAYOFF PICTURE IS CLEARER
Mar 01, 2004; ... From Williamstown, Mass., to Brunswick, Maine, tournament andleague playoff pictures for several New England college basketballand hockey teams came into sharper focus yesterday. A dozen teamsfrom six conferences in the region locked up automatic bids over theweekend and then awaited the ...
LONGMEADOW SAVES BEST FOR LAST
Mar 01, 2004; ... A nail-biting, fist-clenching, hand-wrenching finale to a swimmeet? Absolutely. Entering the final event of yesterday's Girls' Division 1 Swimming& Diving Championships at Northeastern's Barletta Natatorium, it wastough to say which was closer: the scoring of the top three teams, ...
HORNISH TAKES IRL OPENER
Mar 01, 2004 ... NAMES The IRL season opener turned into a Penske shootout,with newcomer Sam Hornish passing teammate Helio Castroneves on thelast lap to win the Toyota Indy 300 yesterday. "I just got the rightmove at the right time," said Hornish, a two-time IndyCar Serieschampion and now a ...
BU RULES AMERICA EAST
Mar 01, 2004 ... Rashad Bell scored 13 of his game-high 22 points in the first halfas Boston University beat Binghamton, 69-53, yesterday at Vestal,N.Y., to clinch the America East regular-season title. The Terriers (23-4, 17-1) used an 11-1 run to end the first halfwith a 37-26 lead on a layup by ...
NOT THRILLED WITH THIS EVENT ATHLETES ARE TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT DOPING
Mar 01, 2004; ... ALL WEEKEND INSIDE THE REGGIE LEWIS CENTER, TRACK'S MOST INTIMATEHOTHOUSE, THE BUZZ WAS ABOUT OLYMPUS. GAIL DEVERS WAS HERE ANDMAURICE GREENE AND ALLEN JOHNSON AND STACY DRAGILA. THE OFFICIAL TASKAT HAND WAS TO MAKE THE UNITED STATES TEAM FOR THIS WEEK'S WORLDINDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ...
COLEMAN COACHES FINAL GAME
Mar 01, 2004; ... BOURNE - It rarely ends as it does in the movies, as Boston Latinboys' hockey coach Dave Coleman found out yesterday. After 37 years behind the bench, Coleman's young team couldn'textend his illustrious career any further, losing to top-seededNauset, 7-4, in the quarterfinals of ...
PANTHERS GET PAST SANDWICH
Mar 01, 2004; ... After dealing with tragedy last week, Plymouth South faced offagainst adversity last night . . . and won. Sean Maguire had two goals and Nick Zimmerman netted the winner ina four-goal third period, leading the Panthers (16-4-2) to a come-from-behind 4-2 victory over Sandwich in ...
A STRIPPED-DOWN RECRUITMENT NON-ATHLETES CAN FACE CHOICES, TOO
Mar 01, 2004; ... In college football's latest recruiting twist, the weight room hasbeen replaced by the strip club. From Alabama to Colorado toMinnesota, our next generation of gridiron greats is being escortedthrough the halls of higher learning by kind and knowledgeablestrippers, who entertain recruits ...
GOOD SIGN, NO DOUBT MARTINEZ ENJOYS NICE, EASY SESSION
Mar 01, 2004; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - It is an anxiously awaited rite of spring here,watching Pedro Martinez take the mound for the first time in a newyear. No one was popping champagne corks yesterday, but it wasdefinitely a cause for celebration. "He threw 49 pitches, and in the words of [pitching ...
MIAA SWIMMING RESULTS
Mar 01, 2004 ... DIVISION 1 at Northeastern (all distances in yards) Team scores - 1. Longmeadow, 165; 2. Dover-Sherborn/Medfield, 162 1/2; 3. Beverly, 156; 4. Lincoln-Sudbury, 91; 5. Hoosac Valley, 89;6. North Attleboro, 85; 7. Amherst-Pelham, 73; 8. Barnstable, 72 1/2; 9 ....
COMPETITION TO BE BACK? FACILITY `GOOD FIT' FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Mar 01, 2004; ... After two successful years at the Reggie Lewis Center, it's highlylikely that the US Indoor Track and Field Championships will be backin Roxbury next winter. "This is a great indoor track city with greatfans," said David Raith, USA Track & Field's director of events andbroadcasting ....
IT'S TOUGH LUCK AS HINGHAM FALLS
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOWELL - In a defensive battle, pouncing on the other team'smistakes is necessary - especially when key players are injured. Justask the Waltham hockey team, which beat Hingham, 3-0, in Super 8action yesterday at Tsongas Arena. The fifth-seeded Hawks lost two players during the ...
NO. 2 TENNESSEE TOPS IN SEC
Mar 01, 2004 ... Shyra Ely scored 25 points as the No. 2 Lady Vols (25-2, 14-0)beat the No. 15 Lady Tigers (22-6, 10-4) at Knoxville, Tenn., tofinish undefeated in Southeastern Conference play for the secondstraight season. LaToya Davis added 13 points for Tennessee, which clinched itsseventh ...
GARDNER COMES BACK FOR MORE
Mar 01, 2004; ... Division 2 After 10 straight state swimming titles, the Gardnergirls came back for one more, finishing 63 points ahead of second-place Weston yesterday at Northeastern's Barletta Natatorium in whatcoach Don Lemieux described as his hardest season. Rounding out the top six were ...
CHESS NOTES
Mar 01, 2004; ... The chess news in New England is that despite the total lack ofgovernment subsidy and very little charitable assistance, the game ofchess thrives here. Chess Horizons, the magazine of the MassachusettsChess Association (MACA), continues, under the direction of MarkDolan of Harwich to be ...
A SHOW WHERE THE EQUIPMENT GETS A TOP ROLE
Mar 01, 2004; ... If you want to see the latest in analytical test equipment, youcould plan a visit to Pittcon, the annual lab science trade showopening next week in Chicago's McCormick Place convention center, andwander among 1,200 exhibition booths displaying high-tech lab gear. Or, you could just tune ...
LISTEN, YOU'LL HEAR THE FUTURE RADIO STATIONS, RECEIVERS GET IN TUNE WITH DIGITAL AGE
Mar 01, 2004; ... It's been 101 years since Guglielmo Marconi made this country'sfirst trans-Atlantic radio broadcast from South Wellfleet on CapeCod, but radio continues to be a vibrant focus of technologicalinnovation.After years of development, in recent months threeBoston stations have begun ...
FINDING THE RIGHT TAX SOFTWARE
Mar 01, 2004; ... If you're a do-it-yourselfer when tax time rolls around, chancesare you use some sort of software to handle the annual chore. You mayhave noticed that these days you have two options: prepare and fileyour taxes online or buy boxed tax preparation software.Does itmake a difference ...
SOONER, NOT LATER, TAKE STEPS TO BACK UP
Mar 01, 2004; ... There are two kinds of computer users -- those who've lost someirreplaceable files, and those who will. There's only one defense --backing up the data. Too bad it's one of the most tedious tasks incomputing.Still, it's getting better, thanks to cheaper CDburning, better backup ...
VERIZON WIRELESS TO OFFER AIRFONE PLAN RATE REDUCTIONS AIM TO BOOST USE
Mar 01, 2004; ... Can you hear me now -- at 33,000 feet?Verizon Wireless isactivating a service today that will let its 38 million subscribersredirect their incoming cellphone calls to seat-back phones onairplanes with Verizon Airfone service, at a deep discount to normalAirfone rates.The plan ...
QUARRY TECHNOLOGIES RAISES $18M IN FUNDS
Mar 01, 2004; ... Quarry Technologies Inc., a Burlington start-up that makesequipment for telecommunications providers to sell antihacker networksecurity services to businesses, has raised $18 million in venturecapital funding, bringing its total raised to $95 million. Quarry's devices, which have been ...
SEPRACOR PLANS TO DOUBLE STAFF, LAUNCH ADS INSOMNIA DRUG GET FDA BACKING
Mar 01, 2004; ... Sepracor Inc. plans to roughly double its workforce to about 2,000people and launch a major advertising campaign after receiving aconditional approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for itsnew insomnia treatment, the Marlborough drug maker's chief financialofficer said ...
HARD LESSON FOR NU STUDENTS
Mar 01, 2004 ... CONGRATULATIONS TO NORTHEASTERN'S PRESIDENT, RICHARD FREELAND, FORSTICKING UP FOR THE RIGHT VALUES. THE STUDENTS WHO WANT TO GO AHEADWITH THEIR PARTY IN SPITE OF THE RECENT TRAGEDY MUST LEARN A HARD BUTIMPORTANT LESSON: A university has no business dancing, drinking, andcelebrating at a ...
SILVER LINE'S SHINY SUCCESS
Mar 01, 2004 ... IN THE STORY ABOUT THE SILVER LINE, THE GLOBE OMITTED TWO KEYPOINTS ("SILVER LINE NOT THE SHINIEST COMMUTE," PAGE A1, FEB. 23). In the transit industry, passenger "trip times"' include the amountof time spent waiting for a vehicle. Given the high frequency ofservice on the Silver Line, ...
A MISLEADING MAP
Mar 01, 2004 ... AFTER CUTTING through the thicket of harsh words exchanged betweenMassachusetts House leaders and the federal judges who have orderedthem to redraw the Boston electoral map, one fact stubbornly remains:The minority population of Boston grew between 1990 and 2000, but thestate House of ...
LACK OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT
Mar 01, 2004 ... IT WAS PATHETIC TO READ ABOUT THE SELFISHNESS AND LACK OFCOMMUNITY SPIRIT SHOWN BY THE NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY STUDENTSSEEKING TO REINSTATE THE HIP-HOP ARTIST LUDACRIS'S CONCERT ATSPRINGFEST ("CANCELED NU CONCERT STIRS ANGER AND DEBATE," CITY ®ION, FEB. 27).Student Camila Crews's ...
THE UNHEALED INJURIES OF CLASS, RACE
Mar 01, 2004 ... REGARDING YOUR EDITORIAL LAST FRIDAY, "WHEN SCHOOLS FAIL": Inyour paean of praise to James Peyser, chairman of the state Board ofEducation, and Governor Mitt Romney, you predictably include self-interested unions and union work rule provisions (abeit, qualifiedwith the word rare ) in ...
WHITTIER STREET CLARIFICATION
Mar 01, 2004 ... REGARDING ADRIAN WALKER'S FEB. 23 COLUMN "ENGLISH-ONLY FIGHTPAINFUL":There is no English-only policy at Whittier StreetHealth Center. There is an English-first policy. We view bilingualismat Whittier to be a valuable asset among our employees because wework with people who speak so ...
FOOLED BY THE SHELL GAME
Mar 01, 2004; ... WHEN ALAN GREENSPAN TOLD A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE LAST WEEK THATSOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR BABY BOOMERS SHOULD BE CUT TO HELPREDUCE THE GROWING FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT, THE THIRD MOVE IN A GAME ICALL THE SOCIAL SECURITY SHELL GAME WAS PLAYED OUT.The SocialSecurity Shell Game has ...
FREE TRADE - BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
Mar 01, 2004; ... TEN YEARS AFTER NAFTA WAS ESTABLISHED AND ONE YEAR BEFORE ITSPROPOSED EXPANSION THROUGH THE FTAA (FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION OF THEAMERICAS) TREATY, FREE TRADE CONTINUES TO BE CONTROVERSIAL. Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry, John Edwards andDennis Kucinich have expressed ...
CULTURE WAR STOKED OVER MARRIAGE
Mar 01, 2004; ... PRESIDENT BUSH'S ENDORSEMENT OF A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTDEFENDING MARRIAGE AS THE UNION OF A MAN AND A WOMAN MAY AMOUNT, INPRACTICAL TERMS, TO VERY LITTLE. AT PRESENT, IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THATTHE AMENDMENT WILL EVER GET OFF THE SENATE FLOOR. WHATEVER THEOUTCOME, THE CULTURE WAR OVER ...
CROWNING GLORY `RETURN OF THE KING' IS NAMED BEST PICTURE IN RECORD-TYING SWEEP
Mar 01, 2004; ... `The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" swept the 76thAcademy Awards last night, winning all 11 Oscars for which it wasnominated, including best picture and best director. Peter Jackson'sblockbuster adaptation of the third book in J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy,the first fantasy film ...
SURPRISES COME UP SHORT IN PREDICTABLE OSCAR SHOW
Mar 01, 2004; ... It's a cliche to say the Oscars were too long. So let's just saythat they weren't short enough, by a long shot. With a few exceptional moments - ringing acceptance speeches fromhonorary winner Blake Edwards and local documentary filmmaker ErrolMorris, funny lyrics to the ...
BIG EAST SAFE IN BCS THROUGH '10 AGREEMENT PUTS FIFTH BOWL IN PLACE BEFORE THE 2006 SEASON
Mar 01, 2004; ... In a major victory for the embattled Big East football conference,presidents representing the Bowl Championship Series yesterday cameto a tentative agreement that virtually guarantees the conference oneof the six BCS bowl slots the next six years. In addition, the BCS will add a ...
NATTERING IN NEW YORK
Mar 01, 2004 ... PITY THE poor voters in the 10 Super Tuesday states who might havetuned in to yesterday's televised debate to seriously evaluate theDemocratic presidential candidates for the first time. It is unlikelythat all but the most determined viewers had "armed themselves withknowledge," as ...
40 AND FABULOUS WOODS LOOKING GOOD AFTER MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP TRIUMPH OVER LOVE
Mar 01, 2004; ... CARLSBAD, Calif. - For most of the morning in yesterday'sAccenture Match Play Championship finale, Tiger Woods needed a roadmap to find the fairway. He needed six hours and 25 holes to finallyget a lead over Davis Love. He then needed just two holes to establish the dominance that ...
A LOT RESTS ON WALLACE BY GORDON EDES A LOT RESTS ON WALLACE'S WORK F
Mar 01, 2004 ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - Sleeping on a sportswriter's floor in Floridadoes not qualify as a ballplayer's preferred accommodations. Can youimagine any Red Sox player today grabbing some rug space atShaughnessy's? Then again, if you wanted to make it to the big leagues as badlyas Dave ...
TOOMEY'S DOUBLE IS EYE-OPENER
Mar 01, 2004; ... Jen Toomey awoke feeling like many ordinary 32-year-old womenprobably felt yesterday. Toomey wanted to spend a sleepy Sunday inSalem, take a day off. But there would be no rest for the weary, and inspired by adiscussion with coach Tom McDermott, Toomey completed anextraordinary ...
UNFLAGGING ENTERPRISE
Mar 01, 2004 ... The Aircraft Carrier US Enterprise pulled alongside the pier atNorfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va., yesterday after a ...
IN CALIF., KERRY ISN'T TAKING A NOVEMBER WIN FOR GRANTED
Mar 01, 2004; ... LOS ANGELES - With a primary victory in sight tomorrow inCalifornia, Senator John F. Kerry is fast-forwarding to November andthe potential for a Republican governor and a president with deeppockets to put up a spirited fight against the Democratic nominee inthe nation's most populous, ...
BUSH ADMINISTRATION ASSAILED AS WITHHOLDING SUPPORT
Mar 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON - Many black political leaders blamed President Bushyesterday for failing to focus enough on the humanitarian problemsboiling in Haiti, and said the administration's unwillingness tosupport the government of its now-exiled president, Jean-BertrandAristide, set a dangerous ...
$3B SOUGHT IN CALIF. FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH SCIENTISTS BACK EFFORT THAT WOULD ASK VOTERS TO OK PUBLIC FUNDS
Mar 01, 2004; ... SACRAMENTO - Frustrated by the government's reluctance to expandcontroversial research involving embryonic stem cells, a coalition ofscientists and wealthy benefactors has launched an initiative seekingvoter approval for $3 billion in public financing that they hope willhasten the ...
IN END, A FIGURE OF UNITY FALLS ALONE
Mar 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON - He was supposed to be the Nelson Mandela of theCaribbean. Many Haitians cried with joy when US troops returned himto power in 1994 after a military coup. But as negotiations withAmerican officials dragged into the night on Saturday and Haitiunraveled in a frenzy of violence, ...