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HE SAYS 01/18/2010 Television evangelist Pat Robertson received a lot of rebuke for spewing a very offensive view on the catastrophe in Haiti, proclaiming it as a punishment from his God, for what he believes was the Haitian’s pact with the devil in exchange for their victory over the French before the 1800s, which some Americans viewed as foul and uncalled for. Robertson, described in his official Web site as a broadcaster, humanitarian, author, Christian, businessman, statesman and many other feel-good descriptions, was of course, among the leading figures in the communist scare of the 1970-1980s, when Haiti was then ruled by the father-son dictators Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and…

When disaster strikes

SHE SAYS 01/18/2010 The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti last week, scientists say, would have caused damage anywhere in the world, but what made its destructive impact stronger in that country was its “weak infrastructure.” This may explain the ruins that took lives and property, but it could well be a weak “core” that caused Haiti ’s distress today. Online articles on the shocking calamity commonly refer to Haiti as a nation used to pain and suffering, but as we now know, nothing quite prepared its citizens for the catastrophic earthquake that killed thousands, affected millions…