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...hosting a benefit concert from 7-9 p.m. this Friday featuring violinist Ryu Goto '11, pianist Charlie Albright ’11, jazz pianist Malcolm G. Campbell ’10, dancer Merritt A. Moore ’11, the Kuumba Singers, the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard Caribbean Dance Team, and the Modern Dance Company. Tickets are $10 for students ($25 for adults) and can be purchased through the Harvard Box Office...
Another change under review is letting people who check "white" or "black" to write in more specific information afterward. In recent years, groups representing a number of backgrounds, including Afro-Caribbean and Arab, have lobbied to be included separately on the Census instead of being confined to broad categories (black for people of Afro-Caribbean decent; white for those with Arab ancestry). By trying out additional write-in blanks, the Census is attempting to see what other designations it might be able to reliably collect data about...
...Republic's favor. Haiti's semiarid climate makes cultivation more challenging. Deforestation - a major problem in Haiti, but not in its neighbor - has only exacerbated the problem. Other differences are a result of Hispaniola's long and often violent history - even TIME called it a "forlorn, hate-filled little Caribbean island" in 1965. On the eastern part of Hispaniola, you'll probably speak Spanish; in the west, it's more likely to be French or Creole, a division that's the result of centuries of European colonization and numerous power struggles. (Not to mention the decimation of Hispaniola's indigenous...
...comments on The 700 Club that the nation's history of catastrophes owed to a "pact with the devil" that its residents had made some 200 years ago. How else to explain why Haiti suffers, while the Dominican Republic - which shares the 30,000 sq. mi. of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola - is relatively well-off? "That island of Hispaniola is one island," Robertson said. "The Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty." (See why Pat Robertson blames Haiti for the earthquake...
Shellonda M. Anderson ’11, president of the Harvard Caribbean Club, has been working with the heads of other organizations on campus to coordinate relief efforts on campus...