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Haiti, more than 200 years after independence, unfortunately still at the very edge of respectability, an affirmation - November 17-25, 2005

                          
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Street market vendors stand near a wall plastered with posters of presidential candidates in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Friday,Nov. 25, 2005. Haiti's electoral board on Friday again postponed the country's first elections since the violent ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, deciding they needed more time to organize balloting to replace the interim government of the poorest nation in the Americas. The Provisional Electoral Council set a new date of Jan. 8 for presidential and legislative elections, followed by a Feb. 15 runoff.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                                               
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A woman picks up beans from the ground during a food distribution in Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this Nov.14, 2005 photo. A new aid organization 'Yele Haiti', led by hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean, has so far focused mostly on giving out scholarships. But after a few exploratory forays, it ventured into Cite Soleil this month to give out food. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                                     
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A boy cries as he picks beans from the floor of a truck during a food distribution in Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this Nov.14, 2005 photo. A new aid organization 'Yele Haiti', led by hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean, has so far focused mostly on giving out scholarships. But after a few exploratory forays, it ventured into Cite Soleil this month to give out food. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                              
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Two Jordanian peacekeepers pray at a roadside checkpoint near the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Wednesday, Nov.23, 2005. AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                                             
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Members of China's third riot police squad to Haiti under the United Nations peace-keeping mission take part in training in Langfang City, north China's Hebei Province Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005. The squad will be soon sent to Haiti this December on an eight-month UN peacekeeping mission after all the members have passed the training assessment on 20 subjects including language ability, hostage rescuing, VIP escorting, etc. Their tasks in Haiti will include assisting local law enforcement, handling public security affairs, guarding large public events and training local riot police. (AP Photo /Xinhua, Fan Changguo)
                                               
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U.N.Brazilian peacekeepers stand in a house they used as an observation point and that gangs partially destroyed in the Pele neighborhood of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,Thursday, Nov.17,2005. International peacekeepers said they fought off gangs all night in the Pele section of the volatile slum of cite Soleil. Haiti's constitution requires the new government to take control on Feb. 7, but the country has struggled to organize the election because of a lack of trained poll workers and equipment, crumbling infrastructure and violence that has made it difficult to register voters. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                           
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U.N. Brazilian peacekeepers patrol the Pele neighborhood of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov.17, 2005. International peacekeepers said they fought off gangs all night in the Pele section of the volatile slum of cite Soleil. Haiti's constitution requires the new government to take control on Feb. 7, but the country has struggled to organize the election because of a lack of trained poll workers and equipment, crumbling infrastructure and violence that has made it difficult to register voters. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                              
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An unidentified man cries as he's detained in the Pele neighborhood of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005. International peacekeepers said they fought off gangs all night in the Pele section of the volatile slum of cite Soleil. Haiti's constitution requires the new government to take control on Feb. 7, but the country has struggled to organize the election because of a lack of trained poll workers and equipment, crumbling infrastructure and violence that has made it difficult to register voters. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
                        
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