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Once again, agony in Haiti - July 22, 2003

                                            
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Lawyer Fitzgerald Douge, 63, talks with neighbors on his porch about the electrocution of 15 people, on Tuesday, July 22, 2003, in Petit-Goave, Haiti. A high voltage wire snapped and fell onto fans watching a basketball game, electrocuting 15 of the spectators, witnesses said Tuesday. Hundreds were watching the game on Monday night when the 2,500-volt wire began to spark. Within minutes, the powerline fell on the crowd.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                         
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A black cloth hangs over the basketball hoop as people talk Tuesday, July 22, 2003, in Petit-Goave, Haiti. A high voltage wire snapped and fell onto fans watching a basketball game there, electrocuting 15 of the spectators, witnesses said Tuesday. Hundreds were watching the game on Monday night when the 2,500-volt wire began to spark. Within minutes, the powerline fell on the crowd. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                         
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Laviolette Saint-Ursule, 53, mother of 15-year-old Anthony Louis, cries on the porch of her home in Petit-Goave, Haiti, on Tuesday, July 22, 2003. Louis was one of 15 people who were electrocuted Monday when a high voltage wire snapped and fell onto fans watching a basketball game in Haiti.(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                             
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Laviolette Saint-Ursule, 53, mother of 15-year-old Anthony Louis, cries on the porch of her home as an unidentified family member looks on, in Petit-Goave, Haiti, on Tuesday, July 22, 2003. Louis was one of 15 people who were electrocuted Monday when a high voltage wire snapped and fell onto fans watching a basketball game in Haiti. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                            

A visit of U.S. AIDS officials in Haiti - July 22, 2003

     
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Andrew S. Natsios, front, director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and US Deputy Secretary of Health Claude Allen, behind left, visit a lab at the GHESKIO Centers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before a ceremony where Natsios officially launched President Bush (news - web sites)'s AIDS (news - web sites) Initiative Monday, July 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                                  
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Claude Allen, right, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Health, Andrew S. Natsios, right center, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and an unidentified visitor to his left, listen as Dr. Marie M.H. Deschamps, left, general secretary of the GHESKIO Centers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, shows them around before a ceremony where Natsios officially launched President Bush (news - web sites)'s AIDS (news - web sites) Initiative Monday July 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                              
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Andrew S. Natsios, left, director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), listens to Florence Liautaud, right, of Haiti's USAID office, after a news conference at GHESKIO Centers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where Natsios officially launched President Bush (news - web sites)'s AIDS (news - web sites) Initiative with a mother-to-child transmission program in Haiti on Monday, July 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                                   

A queen is gone - July 22, 2003

                                                                       
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The carriage bearing the coffin of salsa singer Celia Cruz as the funeral procession proceeds down Fifth Avenue to St.Patrick's Cathedral, in New York, Tuesday July 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Robert Spencer)
                                                                                   
                                                                                          
                        
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