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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Explosions tore through two luxury hotels Friday morning in south Jakarta, Indonesia, killing at least eight people, a presidential spokesman said.

Counter-terrorist police commandos secure the damaged Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta on Friday after the blasts.

The number of injured was in the 40s, said Dino Patti Djalal, spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. They were taken to area hospitals.

Hours later, local television reported a car bombing in north Jakarta, but that report was immediately contradicted by various other media sources.

Police sealed off the area around both hotel blasts, one in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the other at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, about 50 meters away. Djalal said the attacks were coordinated.

Forensics experts are collecting evidence at the "disturbing scene," Djalal said. He said he had few details about the blasts, which occurred about 7:45 a.m. (8:45 p.m. Thursday ET) on Friday, Islam's holy day.

"What I can say is one of the most damaged areas that we looked at, where the bodies were, was a lounge area in the Marriott near the lobby," he said. "That seems to be the epicenter of the bomb."

"This is a blow to us, but I don't have any doubts that we will be able to uncover and find out the perpetrators," Djalal said.

Police said the bomb at the Marriott likely came from the basement beneath the coffee shop on the ground floor, which would have been busy at breakfast time.

In a Twitter post four hours after the blast, Marriott said: "Police responded immediately, sealed off the area. Guests @ both hotels have been evacuated & have been moved to a secure location."

At the Ritz, windows were blown out on the second floor, as though the blast occurred from inside a hotel restaurant that would also have been crowded with a breakfast crowd, said witness Greg Woolstencroft.

Another witness counted four foreigners among the wounded, according to state-run Antara New Agency.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel was to have accommodated soccer players from Britain's Manchester United, who were expected to arrive in Jakarta on Sunday.  Watch a report on suspects behind the blasts Â»

U.S. Embassy Press Attache Paul Belmont told CNN no U.S. casualties have been confirmed and that the embassy was monitoring the situation closely.

The death toll may be higher than reported, said CNN contributor Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director of international operations. He said two U.S. businessmen were treated for minor injuries.

"There was a boom and the building shook, and then subsequently two more," said hotel guest Don Hammer, who was leaving his room in the Marriott when the blast occurred.

"The shocking part was entering the lobby, where the glass at the front of the hotel was all blown out and blood was spattered across the floor, but most people were leaving calmly."

Woolstencroft had just walked past the hotels and had gone to his nearby apartment when he heard an explosion.

"I looked out my window and I saw a huge cloud of brownish smoke go up," he told CNN in a telephone interview. "I grabbed my iPhone to go downstairs ... and then the second bomb went off at the Ritz-Carlton, so I then ran around to the Ritz-Carlton and I was able to find that there had been a massive bomb that went off in this ... restaurant area and the explosion had blown out both sides of the hotel.

"I found inside the body of what appears to be a suicide bomber, it looked like someone who had been a suicide bomber or someone who had been very, very close to the explosion.  Watch an eyewitness report of the blasts Â»

"I also noticed that there were a number of injured people being taken off to hospital, but I only noticed one dead person at this point and time, that's all I saw. There has been extensive damage to both buildings, and at this point and time of course all the authorities are blocking up all the area and starting an investigation."

He added, "It's obviously targeted establishments where there are Westerners and expats ... I can only assume it's something to try and send a message."

The television executive said he had lived at the Ritz for a year before moving to his nearby apartment and had been impressed by the facility's security.

"I just don't know how someone could get in there with a bomb, given the level of security and screening that people have to go through," he said, citing armed guards at checkpoints and thorough searches of people, bags and vehicles.

The Marriott was the site of a terrorist attack in August 2003 that killed 12 people. In that attack, an explosives-laden vehicle pulled into the motor lobby of the Marriott and exploded at the height of the lunch hour.

Friday's attack "was not nearly as bad," said John Aglionby, a reporter for the Financial Times who was at the site of both blasts.

Former CNN producer John Towriss, who has spent many years in Jakarta, said the Marriott and Ritz often share employees and an underground passageway connects the two buildings that sit across the road from each other.

Towriss said the Marriott has beefed up security since the 2003 attacks, making it impossible for people to drive up to the hotel in cars. Both hotels set up metal detectors and thick concrete barriers to prevent car bombers.

"I always thought I was safer at the Marriott because I thought it had already been bombed once," Towriss said. "I thought that another hotel would be targeted."

CNN's Andy Saputra in Jakarta and Miranda Leitsinger in Hong Kong. contributed to this story.

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(CNN) -- Former first lady Barbara Bush was admitted Saturday to a hospital in Texas for routine tests, a spokeswoman said.

"Mrs Bush is in for some routine tests, not an emergency of any kind," said Jim Appleby, spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush.

The former first lady was taken to Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. She had not been feeling well for about a week, said Jean Becker, the chief of staff for Bush's husband.

Bush, 84, is expected to stay at the hospital for a day or two, Becker said. Details on the testing were not immediately available.

Becker, the chief of staff for former President George H.W. Bush, said her hospitalization is "not serious at all."

Last year, Bush underwent open-heart surgery during which doctors replaced her aortic valve with a biologic valve. She spent nine days in the hospital afterward.

Her recent hospitalization is "not related" to the surgery, Becker said.

In November 2008, Bush underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer.

CNN's Leslie Tripp and Ed Henry contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- Portsmouth will play Chelsea in the FA Cup final after an upset 2-0 extra-time victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the second semifinal at Wembley on Sunday.

French striker Frederic Piquionne opened the scoring for Avram Grant's men nine minutes into extra-time.

Former Tottenham midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng scored the second with three minutes remaining from the penalty spot after referee Alan Wiley awarded a spot kick as Wilson Palacios fouled Aruna Dindane.

It was a humiliating defeat for Tottenham and their manager Harry Redknapp, who steered Portsmouth to FA Cup triumph in 2008 before leaving the cash-strapped club for White Hart Lane.

His team went into the match as overwhelming favorites against a Pompey team who had been relegated from the Premier League the day before without playing, having been deducted nine points after going into administration.

But all that was forgotten as their fanatical fans enjoyed a famous victory which owed much to good fortune and some excellent goalkeeping from England international David James.

Their breakthrough goal could be credited to the appalling Wembley pitch as Spurs defender Michael Dawson slipped at a crucial moment and Piquionne took full advantage.

Tottenham thought they had equalized almost immediately through Peter Crouch but Wiley ruled it out for a push on James.

With Tottenham camped in the Pompey half, Dindane broke clear and although Palacios got the ball in his challenge he also pulled him down and Wiley had no hesitation in pointing to the spot.

Spurs reject Boateng scored past Heurelho Gomes with relish to seal a famous cup victory.

An overjoyed James said they had deserved their win after being written off before the semifinal.

"We played very well throughout the team, he told ITV.

"Look what it means to Pompey, it's fantastic.

"We were eight- or nine-to-one to win beforehand but we have proved people wrong."

In truth, Tottenham had been the more accomplished side in a generally scrappy match and Crouch will be rueing a headed miss against his former side in the second half in which he also hit the post.

Aaron Mokoena had to make a goalline clearance from a Vedran Corluka cross in Tottenham's best spell of pressure, but Pompey were always a threat on the break and took their chances when offered.

They will play double-chasing Chelsea at Wembley on May 15 and again will start as massive underdogs.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Baz Luhrmann is the type of director for whom the word innovative was invented.

Luhrmann and his costume designer wife Catherine Martin, who is a long time collaborator.

With a filmography comprising of just three full-length feature films, (and one currently in post-production) Luhrmann has produced a stunning and highly visual body of work that is loved and loathed in equal measures.

His films have a tendency to suck the viewer up into a swirling vortex of lush imagery and a lavish production style, often with a frenetic pace that one critic described as being like "a madman on Benzedrine".

But there is a method to Luhrmann's madness.

The trio of films, "Strictly Ballroom," an adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Moulin Rouge!" all form part of a specific filmmaking technique described by Luhrmann as "The Red Curtain" cinema.

Luhrmann incorporates traditional theatrical conventions into his films and morphs them to create visual treats in stories set in heightened otherworlds. Simple devices like song and dance are then used to drive the action.

He always surrounds himself with the same creative team for all of his projects. His wife, production and costume designer Catherine Martin, who is known as CM, is intrinsic to his striking visual style.

In his directorial debut "Strictly Ballroom," Luhrmann injected dazzling colors and energetic dance moves into the stuffy world of ballroom dancing and was credited with making the genre hip again.

Luhrmann himself was a ballroom dancer from the age of six, and the film reflects his affection for and intimate knowledge of that world.

An intensely personal director who always draws on his own experiences, Luhrmann told CNN's The Screening Room: "Art and life cannot be separated, they feed each other and creative decisions are based on what will make life rich and what will enrich the story telling. What I make comes from a personal level."

It paid off for "Strictly Ballroom," which became a global hit, winning eight Australian Film Institute Awards, three BAFTAs, and the Cannes Film Festival's Prix de Jeunesse in 1992.

In 1996, Luhrmann worked his magic again in "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet," an MTV-style version of the classic love story set in latter-day Miami Beach, complete with warring gangs wielding automatic weapons.

But it was in "Moulin Rouge!" that the Red Curtain's opulent and extravagant theatrical style would explode in, spectacular, some would say violent, fashion. Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, it explored a young writer's foray into the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris.

Following the film's box-office success Luhrmann landed a highly lucrative Chanel contract, making a Red Curtain-inspired 2004 film for Chanel No. 5, starring Nicole Kidman. At $36m, it is reputedly one of the most expensive adverts of all time.

The maverick movie-maker began his film career as an actor, training at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, but it wasn't long before he was employing his flamboyant and creative talent behind the scenes.

What seems to drive Luhrmann is his huge passion and appetite for all art forms.

He is a veritable Jack-of-all trades: a writer-director who has produced theatre and opera pieces, worked as a guest editor for Australian Vogue and in 1999, Luhrmann scored a surprise-hit single with "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)."

Following his Red Curtain trilogy, Luhrmann planned to move onto epic storytelling. He started work on a retelling of Alexander the Great, set to star Leonardo DiCaprio.

But the film was set aside when Oliver Stone's version was released -- and flopped -- in 2004.

""My next great passion after musicals is the epic-- telling a recognizable universal story using a vast canvas of a far away place and historical events," he tells CNN.

"I embarked on that in my exploration of doing Alexander the Great. At one stage, I was collaborating with DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg.

"We were looking at sets around the world and studios were built in Northern Africa and Thailand. It got a long way down the road but for various reasons, not just because of the competing project, we walked away from it," he explains.

"For where we were in our life particularly because we were embarking on a very personal part of our story to have children, it wasn't right.

"It's all about the timing and what is right for your life in that moment in time. We walked away from that and I never regret that for a second."

After a seven-year hiatus, during which he and CM have had two "magical, incredible children," Luhrmann has finally made his epic film, simply titled "Australia," with a budget of $130m, making it the expensive movie ever made in the country.

"Australia" is a love letter to his home country. In it Nicole Kidman plays an English aristocrat who travels to 1930s Australia to sell a cattle ranch. A grueling journey across country with a rough drover (Hugh Jackman) ends with the pair witnessing the Japanese bombardment of Darwin at the start of the Second World War.

"It's been a long time since we've had those huge banquet like motion pictures, when I was a kid, if a big epic was coming it was a big event and the whole family went," Luhrmann says.

"It's big drama, comedy, landscape -- a huge banquet and I would like to invite the audience to this cinematic table."

Luhrmann is unsure if the departure from his normal style is a good career move but is adamant "it's a good life move." "We found our inner spirit enlivened again," he says.

Luhrmann, (unlike CM), has been thus far overlooked for an Oscar award, but "Australia," a big, bold movie with a vast emotional landscape is just the sort of film the Academy loves.

Come 2009, it seems they will no longer be able to ignore Luhrmann's considerable -- and -- inimitable talents.

What do you think of Luhrmann's cinematic style? Do you love it or loathe it? Tell us your views in our Sound Off box below.

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CAVITE CITY, Philippines (CNN)  -- At 16, Rhandolf Fajardo reflects on his former life as a gang member.

Efren PeÃ±aflorida's Dynamic Teen Company offers Filipino youth an alternative to gangs through education.

"My gang mates were the most influential thing in my life," says Fajardo, who joined a gang when he was in sixth grade. "We were pressured to join."

He's not alone. In the Philippines, teenage membership in urban gangs has surged to an estimated 130,000 in the past 10 years, according to the Preda Foundation, a local human rights charity.

"I thought I'd get stuck in that situation and that my life would never improve," recalls Fajardo. "I would probably be in jail right now, most likely a drug addict -- if I hadn't met Efren."

Efren PeÃ±aflorida, 28, also was bullied by gangs in high school. Today, he offers Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year

"Gang members are groomed in the slums as early as 9 years old," says PeÃ±aflorida. "They are all victims of poverty."

For the past 12 years, PeÃ±aflorida and his team of teen volunteers have taught basic reading and writing to children living on the streets. Their main tool: A pushcart classroom.

Stocked with books, pens, tables and chairs, his Dynamic Teen Company recreates a school setting in unconventional locations such as the cemetery and municipal trash dump.

PeÃ±aflorida knows firsthand the adversity faced by these children. Born into a poor family, he lived in a shanty near the city dump site. But he says he refused to allow his circumstances to define his future.

"Instead of being discouraged, I promised myself that I would pursue education," he recalls. "I will strive hard; I will do my best."

In high school, PeÃ±aflorida faced a new set of challenges. Gang activity was rampant; they terrorized the student body, vandalized the school and inducted members by forcing them to rape young girls, he says.

"I felt the social discrimination. I was afraid to walk down the street."

PeÃ±aflorida remembers standing up to a gang leader, refusing to join his gang. That confrontation proved fateful. At 16, he and his friends "got the idea to divert teenagers like us to be productive," he says.

He created the Dynamic Teen Company to offer his classmates an outlet to lift up themselves and their community. For PeÃ±aflorida, that meant returning to the slums of his childhood to give kids the education he felt they deserved.

"They need education to be successful in life. It's just giving them what others gave to me," he says.

Today, children ranging from ages 2 to 14 flock to the pushcart every Saturday to learn reading, writing, arithmetic and English from PeÃ±aflorida and his trained teen volunteers.  Watch PeÃ±aflorida and his group in action with their push cart classroom Â»

"Our volunteers serve as an inspiration to other children," he says.

The group also runs a hygiene clinic, where children can get a bath and learn how to brush their teeth.

Since 1997, an estimated 10,000 members have helped teach more than 1,500 children living in the slums. The organization supports its efforts by making and selling crafts and collecting items to recycle.  Take a look at the slums where PeÃ±aflorida and his group spend their Saturdays Â»

Through his group, PeÃ±aflorida has successfully mentored former gang members, addicts and dropouts, seeing potential where others see problems.

"Before, I really didn't care for my life," says Michael Advincula, who started doing drugs when he was 7. "But then Efren patiently dug me from where I was buried. It was Efren who pushed me to get my life together."  Watch Advincula describe how he met PeÃ±aflorida in the slums Â»

Today, Advincula is a senior in high school and one of the group's volunteers.

PeÃ±aflorida hopes to expand the pushcart to other areas, giving more children the chance to learn and stay out of gangs.

"I always tell my volunteers that you are the change that you dream and I am the change that I dream. And collectively we are the change that this world needs to be."

Want to get involved? Check out the Dynamic Teen Company and see how to help.

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(CNN) -- The same hands that are helping Haiti recover from a massive earthquake could cripple its long-term recovery.

That's the concern voiced by some Haitian scholars, natives and relief workers.

The world has rallied to Haiti's side since the January 12 earthquake killed at least 217,000 people and displaced at least a million in the impoverished island nation.

Yet the same groups that have lined up to help Haitians the past two months -- foreign governments, relief groups and companies pledging to rebuild  -- could hobble Haiti's long-term survival, some say.

Ronald Agenor, a Haitian-American, says he's grateful for the world's assistance. But he doesn't want the earthquake to wipe out one of his native country's most precious assets: its independence.

"We're not a country anymore," said Agenor, a former top-ranked professional tennis player. "It doesn't seem like we have a government. We're a place where people go to give money."

How aid can hinder Haiti's government

Much of Haiti's national identity is shaped around its unique history. Haitians are the descendants of the only slaves who revolted against their masters in the 19th century.

Haiti, though, has struggled since it broke away from its colonial rulers, the French. Even before the earthquake, unemployment hovered around 50 percent, and more than half of all Haitians live on a dollar a day. Ongoing political instability adds to Haiti's misery.

Western nations and relief groups have stepped in over the years to help. But some of that help has backfired, says Alex Dupuy, a native of Haiti and a professor of sociology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

"Haiti has been transformed over the years into an aid-dependent country," Dupuy said. "Much of the aid has further weakened the ability of the state to deliver."

In Haiti, the government doesn't provide basic services such as sanitation, electricity and drinking water, Dupuy says. Much of that is provided by non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, like relief groups, he says.

"It becomes a vicious cycle," Dupuy said. "The state is never forced to face up to its responsibilities."

Educated Haitians could stay and help their country, but many prefer to move elsewhere for more comfortable living, Dupuy says.

"There are more Haitian doctors practicing medicine in Montreal than in Haiti," Dupuy said.

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Those educated Haitians who do stay are often siphoned off into working for the non-governmental organizations stationed there, says J. Phil Thompson, an urban studies professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has traveled to disaster zones around the world to help communities recover.

Thompson says there are about 10,000 NGOs in Haiti.

"Haitians often don't want to work for the government, because the salaries can't compete with the donations various intermediaries can pay," Thompson said.

Profiting from Haiti's misery

Helping hands have hurt Haiti in the past, some Haitians say. Powerful outsiders took advantage of Haiti's weakened government for profit.

Dupuy says that in the early 1970s, Haiti was self-sufficient in its rice production. Today, it is the fourth largest importer of rice from American farmers who are subsidized by the U.S. government.

The change came about because much of the foreign aid to Haiti had strings attached. Haiti had to remove its tariffs and open its economy to foreign imports, he says.

"All of which had devastating impacts on Haitian agriculture," Dupuy said. "Haiti has nothing to show for it. Now it imports 25 percent of the food it consumes."

Haiti's impoverished condition also provides opportunity for companies that flock to the country.

"It's being used as a haven for cheap labor in the textiles and garment industries," Dupuy says. "Those industries are going to Haiti because there is an abundance of the cheapest labor in the Western hemisphere."

Even those companies that promise to help rebuild Haiti must be viewed with suspicion, one scholar says.

Haiti's recovery could be hampered by unscrupulous outsiders and opportunistic Haitians who may seize land for themselves by passing their efforts off as "helping the recovery," Thompson said.

After Hurricane Katrina wiped out the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana, a group of developers proposed turning the area into a golf course, Thompson says. After the 2004 Asian tsunami, developers proposed building luxury hotels on the fishing communities that had just been wiped out, he added.

The same pattern could repeat itself in Port-au-Prince, the capital, to "redevelop" Haiti, Thompson says.

"Everywhere I've worked, where there's been a disaster, there's been land grabs by the elite," Thompson said.

Haitians say how their country can recover

Haitians can come out of this disaster stronger if they take more control of their destiny, Thompson says.

Thompson suggests that Haitians create a social investment fund, which would be used to funnel money that expatriates send to their homeland into investments in renewable energy, education and housing.

It's been estimated that up to 36 percent of Haiti's gross national product comes from remittances, or money Haitians receive from other Haitians abroad.

"Because Haitians are investing in Haiti, they are going to make sure no one is ripped off," Thompson said of the investment fund.

Agenor, the Haitian-American tennis player, recommends an even more subtle change for improving his country's prospects: teach more English to Haitian youth.

Creole and French are the primary languages in Haiti. But the best employment opportunities for Haitians rest about an hour's flight away in the U.S., where English is the main language, Agenor says.

"We have a French culture, but we're so close to America," said Agenor, who now lives in Los Angeles, California. "When Haitians go to America, they don't speak English. They can't go to college. When other English-speaking islanders go to America, 80 percent of the job is done."

Relief groups can help Haitians in the short term by not only providing food, shelter and water but  by hiring Haitian workers in reconstruction projects and soliciting their advice, one relief expert says.

"There's nothing worse than a bunch of foreigners coming in to fix everything," said David Humphries, a spokesman for CHF International, a humanitarian organization that is in Haiti. "Self-esteem and buy-in are very important for any community. They need to say, 'This is our building, our hospital.' "

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Local input can also avoid wasting precious resources, Humphries says.

"You can build a hospital, but if there's no functional road to it, it's a white elephant," Humphries said. "People will despise it. Go in the community, get their input and employ them."

Despite the challenges ahead, some Haitians remain optimistic. News accounts of the earthquake's aftermath are filled with stories about the resilience of Haitian people.

Maggie Boyer, a Haitian native who is communications director for World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian agency, says the street vendors and the colorful Tap-Tap taxicabs have returned to the streets of Port-au-Prince.

"Given our history as the first black republic," Boyer said, "this has left us with the sense that we are good, we can win, and we can go forward."

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text: in

text: the

text: impoverished

text: island

text: nation

text: Yet

text: the

text: same

text: groups

text: that

text: have

text: lined

text: up

text: to

text: help

text: Haitians

text: the

text: past

text: two

text: months

text: foreign

text: governments

text: relief

text: groups

text: and

text: companies

text: pledging

text: to

text: rebuild

text: could

text: hobble

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: long

text: term

text: survival

text: some

text: say

text: Ronald

text: Agenor

text: a

text: Haitian

text: American

text: says

text: he

text: 's

text: grateful

text: for

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: assistance

text: But

text: he

text: does

text: n't

text: want

text: the

text: earthquake

text: to

text: wipe

text: out

text: one

text: of

text: his

text: native

text: country

text: 's

text: most

text: precious

text: assets

text: its

text: independence

text: We

text: 're

text: not

text: a

text: country

text: anymore

text: said

text: Agenor

text: a

text: former

text: top

text: ranked

text: professional

text: tennis

text: player

text: It

text: does

text: n't

text: seem

text: like

text: we

text: have

text: a

text: government

text: We

text: 're

text: a

text: place

text: where

text: people

text: go

text: to

text: give

text: money

text: How

text: aid

text: can

text: hinder

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: government

text: Much

text: of

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: national

text: identity

text: is

text: shaped

text: around

text: its

text: unique

text: history

text: Haitians

text: are

text: the

text: descendants

text: of

text: the

text: only

text: slaves

text: who

text: revolted

text: against

text: their

text: masters

text: in

text: the

text: century

text: Haiti

text: though

text: has

text: struggled

text: since

text: it

text: broke

text: away

text: from

text: its

text: colonial

text: rulers

text: the

text: French

text: Even

text: before

text: the

text: earthquake

text: unemployment

text: hovered

text: around

text: percent

text: and

text: more

text: than

text: half

text: of

text: all

text: Haitians

text: live

text: on

text: a

text: dollar

text: a

text: day

text: Ongoing

text: political

text: instability

text: adds

text: to

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: misery

text: Western

text: nations

text: and

text: relief

text: groups

text: have

text: stepped

text: in

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: to

text: help

text: But

text: some

text: of

text: that

text: help

text: has

text: backfired

text: says

text: Alex

text: Dupuy

text: a

text: native

text: of

text: Haiti

text: and

text: a

text: professor

text: of

text: sociology

text: at

text: Wesleyan

text: University

text: in

text: Connecticut

text: Haiti

text: has

text: been

text: transformed

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: into

text: an

text: aid

text: dependent

text: country

text: Dupuy

text: said

text: Much

text: of

text: the

text: aid

text: has

text: further

text: weakened

text: the

text: ability

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: to

text: deliver

text: In

text: Haiti

text: the

text: government

text: does

text: n't

text: provide

text: basic

text: services

text: such

text: as

text: sanitation

text: electricity

text: and

text: drinking

text: water

text: Dupuy

text: says

text: Much

text: of

text: that

text: is

text: provided

text: by

text: non

text: governmental

text: organizations

text: or

text: NGOs

text: like

text: relief

text: groups

text: he

text: says

text: It

text: becomes

text: a

text: vicious

text: cycle

text: Dupuy

text: said

text: The

text: state

text: is

text: never

text: forced

text: to

text: face

text: up

text: to

text: its

text: responsibilities

text: Educated

text: Haitians

text: could

text: stay

text: and

text: help

text: their

text: country

text: but

text: many

text: prefer

text: to

text: move

text: elsewhere

text: for

text: more

text: comfortable

text: living

text: Dupuy

text: says

text: There

text: are

text: more

text: Haitian

text: doctors

text: practicing

text: medicine

text: in

text: Montreal

text: than

text: in

text: Haiti

text: Dupuy

text: said

text: Full

text: earthquake

text: coverage

text: Those

text: educated

text: Haitians

text: who

text: do

text: stay

text: are

text: often

text: siphoned

text: off

text: into

text: working

text: for

text: the

text: non

text: governmental

text: organizations

text: stationed

text: there

text: says

text: J.

text: Phil

text: Thompson

text: an

text: urban

text: studies

text: professor

text: at

text: the

text: Massachusetts

text: Institute

text: of

text: Technology

text: who

text: has

text: traveled

text: to

text: disaster

text: zones

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: to

text: help

text: communities

text: recover

text: Thompson

text: says

text: there

text: are

text: about

text: NGOs

text: in

text: Haiti

text: Haitians

text: often

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: work

text: for

text: the

text: government

text: because

text: the

text: salaries

text: ca

text: n't

text: compete

text: with

text: the

text: donations

text: various

text: intermediaries

text: can

text: pay

text: Thompson

text: said

text: Profiting

text: from

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: misery

text: Helping

text: hands

text: have

text: hurt

text: Haiti

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: some

text: Haitians

text: say

text: Powerful

text: outsiders

text: took

text: advantage

text: of

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: weakened

text: government

text: for

text: profit

text: Dupuy

text: says

text: that

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: Haiti

text: was

text: self

text: sufficient

text: in

text: its

text: rice

text: production

text: Today

text: it

text: is

text: the

text: fourth

text: largest

text: importer

text: of

text: rice

text: from

text: American

text: farmers

text: who

text: are

text: subsidized

text: by

text: the

text: U.S.

text: government

text: The

text: change

text: came

text: about

text: because

text: much

text: of

text: the

text: foreign

text: aid

text: to

text: Haiti

text: had

text: strings

text: attached

text: Haiti

text: had

text: to

text: remove

text: its

text: tariffs

text: and

text: open

text: its

text: economy

text: to

text: foreign

text: imports

text: he

text: says

text: All

text: of

text: which

text: had

text: devastating

text: impacts

text: on

text: Haitian

text: agriculture

text: Dupuy

text: said

text: Haiti

text: has

text: nothing

text: to

text: show

text: for

text: it

text: Now

text: it

text: imports

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: food

text: it

text: consumes

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: impoverished

text: condition

text: also

text: provides

text: opportunity

text: for

text: companies

text: that

text: flock

text: to

text: the

text: country

text: It

text: 's

text: being

text: used

text: as

text: a

text: haven

text: for

text: cheap

text: labor

text: in

text: the

text: textiles

text: and

text: garment

text: industries

text: Dupuy

text: says

text: Those

text: industries

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: Haiti

text: because

text: there

text: is

text: an

text: abundance

text: of

text: the

text: cheapest

text: labor

text: in

text: the

text: Western

text: hemisphere

text: Even

text: those

text: companies

text: that

text: promise

text: to

text: help

text: rebuild

text: Haiti

text: must

text: be

text: viewed

text: with

text: suspicion

text: one

text: scholar

text: says

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: recovery

text: could

text: be

text: hampered

text: by

text: unscrupulous

text: outsiders

text: and

text: opportunistic

text: Haitians

text: who

text: may

text: seize

text: land

text: for

text: themselves

text: by

text: passing

text: their

text: efforts

text: off

text: as

text: helping

text: the

text: recovery

text: Thompson

text: said

text: After

text: Hurricane

text: Katrina

text: wiped

text: out

text: the

text: Lower

text: Ninth

text: Ward

text: in

text: New

text: Orleans

text: Louisiana

text: a

text: group

text: of

text: developers

text: proposed

text: turning

text: the

text: area

text: into

text: a

text: golf

text: course

text: Thompson

text: says

text: After

text: the

text: Asian

text: tsunami

text: developers

text: proposed

text: building

text: luxury

text: hotels

text: on

text: the

text: fishing

text: communities

text: that

text: had

text: just

text: been

text: wiped

text: out

text: he

text: added

text: The

text: same

text: pattern

text: could

text: repeat

text: itself

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: the

text: capital

text: to

text: redevelop

text: Haiti

text: Thompson

text: says

text: Everywhere

text: I

text: 've

text: worked

text: where

text: there

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: disaster

text: there

text: 's

text: been

text: land

text: grabs

text: by

text: the

text: elite

text: Thompson

text: said

text: Haitians

text: say

text: how

text: their

text: country

text: can

text: recover

text: Haitians

text: can

text: come

text: out

text: of

text: this

text: disaster

text: stronger

text: if

text: they

text: take

text: more

text: control

text: of

text: their

text: destiny

text: Thompson

text: says

text: Thompson

text: suggests

text: that

text: Haitians

text: create

text: a

text: social

text: investment

text: fund

text: which

text: would

text: be

text: used

text: to

text: funnel

text: money

text: that

text: expatriates

text: send

text: to

text: their

text: homeland

text: into

text: investments

text: in

text: renewable

text: energy

text: education

text: and

text: housing

text: It

text: 's

text: been

text: estimated

text: that

text: up

text: to

text: percent

text: of

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: gross

text: national

text: product

text: comes

text: from

text: remittances

text: or

text: money

text: Haitians

text: receive

text: from

text: other

text: Haitians

text: abroad

text: Because

text: Haitians

text: are

text: investing

text: in

text: Haiti

text: they

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: make

text: sure

text: no

text: one

text: is

text: ripped

text: off

text: Thompson

text: said

text: of

text: the

text: investment

text: fund

text: Agenor

text: the

text: Haitian

text: American

text: tennis

text: player

text: recommends

text: an

text: even

text: more

text: subtle

text: change

text: for

text: improving

text: his

text: country

text: 's

text: prospects

text: teach

text: more

text: English

text: to

text: Haitian

text: youth

text: Creole

text: and

text: French

text: are

text: the

text: primary

text: languages

text: in

text: Haiti

text: But

text: the

text: best

text: employment

text: opportunities

text: for

text: Haitians

text: rest

text: about

text: an

text: hour

text: 's

text: flight

text: away

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: where

text: English

text: is

text: the

text: main

text: language

text: Agenor

text: says

text: We

text: have

text: a

text: French

text: culture

text: but

text: we

text: 're

text: so

text: close

text: to

text: America

text: said

text: Agenor

text: who

text: now

text: lives

text: in

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: California

text: When

text: Haitians

text: go

text: to

text: America

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: speak

text: English

text: They

text: ca

text: n't

text: go

text: to

text: college

text: When

text: other

text: English

text: speaking

text: islanders

text: go

text: to

text: America

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: job

text: is

text: done

text: Relief

text: groups

text: can

text: help

text: Haitians

text: in

text: the

text: short

text: term

text: by

text: not

text: only

text: providing

text: food

text: shelter

text: and

text: water

text: but

text: by

text: hiring

text: Haitian

text: workers

text: in

text: reconstruction

text: projects

text: and

text: soliciting

text: their

text: advice

text: one

text: relief

text: expert

text: says

text: There

text: 's

text: nothing

text: worse

text: than

text: a

text: bunch

text: of

text: foreigners

text: coming

text: in

text: to

text: fix

text: everything

text: said

text: David

text: Humphries

text: a

text: spokesman

text: for

text: CHF

text: International

text: a

text: humanitarian

text: organization

text: that

text: is

text: in

text: Haiti

text: Self

text: esteem

text: and

text: buy

text: in

text: are

text: very

text: important

text: for

text: any

text: community

text: They

text: need

text: to

text: say

text: This

text: is

text: our

text: building

text: our

text: hospital

text: iReport

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: missing

text: and

text: found

text: Local

text: input

text: can

text: also

text: avoid

text: wasting

text: precious

text: resources

text: Humphries

text: says

text: You

text: can

text: build

text: a

text: hospital

text: but

text: if

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: functional

text: road

text: to

text: it

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: white

text: elephant

text: Humphries

text: said

text: People

text: will

text: despise

text: it

text: Go

text: in

text: the

text: community

text: get

text: their

text: input

text: and

text: employ

text: them

text: Despite

text: the

text: challenges

text: ahead

text: some

text: Haitians

text: remain

text: optimistic

text: News

text: accounts

text: of

text: the

text: earthquake

text: 's

text: aftermath

text: are

text: filled

text: with

text: stories

text: about

text: the

text: resilience

text: of

text: Haitian

text: people

text: Maggie

text: Boyer

text: a

text: Haitian

text: native

text: who

text: is

text: communications

text: director

text: for

text: World

text: Vision

text: an

text: international

text: Christian

text: humanitarian

text: agency

text: says

text: the

text: street

text: vendors

text: and

text: the

text: colorful

text: Tap

text: Tap

text: taxicabs

text: have

text: returned

text: to

text: the

text: streets

text: of

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: Given

text: our

text: history

text: as

text: the

text: first

text: black

text: republic

text: Boyer

text: said

text: this

text: has

text: left

text: us

text: with

text: the

text: sense

text: that

text: we

text: are

text: good

text: we

text: can

text: win

text: and

text: we

text: can

text: go

text: forward

question: What weakens ability of Haitian government to develop?

answer: foreign

text: foreign

question: What does the sociologist say aid does?

answer: has further weakened the ability of the state to deliver."

text: has further weakened the ability of the state to deliver."

question: What could hobble country's recovery?

answer: foreign governments, relief groups and companies pledging to rebuild

text: foreign governments, relief groups and companies pledging to rebuild

question: Who can use crisis for land grabs?

answer: unscrupulous outsiders and opportunistic Haitians

text: unscrupulous outsiders and opportunistic Haitians

question: What is flowing into Haiti?

answer: aid

text: aid

question: What could powerful outsiders use the crisis for?

answer: profit.

text: profit.


text:
OAKLAND, California (CNN)  -- A former police officer for the Bay Area transit system pleaded not guilty Thursday in the New Year's Day shooting of a passenger at an Oakland rail station.

Former transit officer Johannes Mehserle is charged with homicide in the death of Oscar Grant III.

Johannes Mehserle, 27, appeared in a packed Alameda County courtroom, with his supporters separated by a courtroom aisle from relatives of shooting victim Oscar Grant III and other spectators. Mehserle is charged with shooting Grant, 22, in an incident that spurred violent protests in Oakland after being captured on video.

Mehserle resigned his job as a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer days after the shooting, and he was arrested in Nevada earlier this week. Thursday's proceedings took less than five minutes, with Mehserle appearing behind heavy windows in an enclosure out of view of all but a handful of spectators.

Superior Court Judge Robert McGuinness ordered the ex-officer held until his next hearing, scheduled for January 26.

BART police had been called to Oakland's Fruitvale station January 1 after passengers complained about fights on a train.

Officers pulled several men, including Grant, off the train when it arrived at Fruitvale, and video taken by witnesses showed Mehserle shooting Grant in the back as another officer kneeled on the man.

Investigators have not said whether Grant was involved in the fight.

The shooting spawned public outrage and a string of protests that led to more than 100 riot-related arrests.  Watch some of the recent rioting in Oakland, California Â»

Thursday's proceedings drew an overflow crowd to the courthouse, with some would-be spectators grumbling that they could not get into the hearing.

Vicki Behringer contributed to this report for CNN.

text: OAKLAND

text: California

text: CNN

text: A

text: former

text: police

text: officer

text: for

text: the

text: Bay

text: Area

text: transit

text: system

text: pleaded

text: not

text: guilty

text: Thursday

text: in

text: the

text: New

text: Year

text: 's

text: Day

text: shooting

text: of

text: a

text: passenger

text: at

text: an

text: Oakland

text: rail

text: station

text: Former

text: transit

text: officer

text: Johannes

text: Mehserle

text: is

text: charged

text: with

text: homicide

text: in

text: the

text: death

text: of

text: Oscar

text: Grant

text: III

text: Johannes

text: Mehserle

text: appeared

text: in

text: a

text: packed

text: Alameda

text: County

text: courtroom

text: with

text: his

text: supporters

text: separated

text: by

text: a

text: courtroom

text: aisle

text: from

text: relatives

text: of

text: shooting

text: victim

text: Oscar

text: Grant

text: III

text: and

text: other

text: spectators

text: Mehserle

text: is

text: charged

text: with

text: shooting

text: Grant

text: in

text: an

text: incident

text: that

text: spurred

text: violent

text: protests

text: in

text: Oakland

text: after

text: being

text: captured

text: on

text: video

text: Mehserle

text: resigned

text: his

text: job

text: as

text: a

text: Bay

text: Area

text: Rapid

text: Transit

text: police

text: officer

text: days

text: after

text: the

text: shooting

text: and

text: he

text: was

text: arrested

text: in

text: Nevada

text: earlier

text: this

text: week

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: proceedings

text: took

text: less

text: than

text: five

text: minutes

text: with

text: Mehserle

text: appearing

text: behind

text: heavy

text: windows

text: in

text: an

text: enclosure

text: out

text: of

text: view

text: of

text: all

text: but

text: a

text: handful

text: of

text: spectators

text: Superior

text: Court

text: Judge

text: Robert

text: McGuinness

text: ordered

text: the

text: ex

text: officer

text: held

text: until

text: his

text: next

text: hearing

text: scheduled

text: for

text: January

text: BART

text: police

text: had

text: been

text: called

text: to

text: Oakland

text: 's

text: Fruitvale

text: station

text: January

text: after

text: passengers

text: complained

text: about

text: fights

text: on

text: a

text: train

text: Officers

text: pulled

text: several

text: men

text: including

text: Grant

text: off

text: the

text: train

text: when

text: it

text: arrived

text: at

text: Fruitvale

text: and

text: video

text: taken

text: by

text: witnesses

text: showed

text: Mehserle

text: shooting

text: Grant

text: in

text: the

text: back

text: as

text: another

text: officer

text: kneeled

text: on

text: the

text: man

text: Investigators

text: have

text: not

text: said

text: whether

text: Grant

text: was

text: involved

text: in

text: the

text: fight

text: The

text: shooting

text: spawned

text: public

text: outrage

text: and

text: a

text: string

text: of

text: protests

text: that

text: led

text: to

text: more

text: than

text: riot

text: related

text: arrests

text: Watch

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: recent

text: rioting

text: in

text: Oakland

text: California

text: Â

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: proceedings

text: drew

text: an

text: overflow

text: crowd

text: to

text: the

text: courthouse

text: with

text: some

text: would

text: be

text: spectators

text: grumbling

text: that

text: they

text: could

text: not

text: get

text: into

text: the

text: hearing

text: Vicki

text: Behringer

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

text: for

text: CNN

question: Who is the shooting victim?

answer: Grant,

text: Grant,

question: What former cop appeared in court?

answer: officer Johannes Mehserle

text: officer Johannes Mehserle

question: What happened to Meheserle in Nevada?

answer: he was arrested

text: he was arrested

question: Who appeared in a packed Alameda County courtroom?

answer: Johannes Mehserle,

text: Johannes Mehserle,

question: Who was arrested in Nevada earlier this week?

answer: Johannes Mehserle,

text: Johannes Mehserle,

question: Who's death spawned public outrage?

answer: Oscar Grant III

text: Oscar Grant III

question: Where did ex cop Mehserle appear at?

answer: Alameda County courtroom,

text: Alameda County courtroom,

question: Who was accused of killing Oscar Grant III?

answer: Johannes Mehserle

text: Johannes Mehserle


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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- Love hurts, especially for jilted lovers on Valentine's Day.

With that in mind, a London tourist attraction is offering visitors the chance to curse former boyfriends, girlfriends or spouses -- and get a discount on the entry price at the same time.

"Hex your Ex" is the Valentine's Day promotion at the London Dungeon, a house of horrors that takes visitors through elements of the city's bloody, gruesome, and torturous past.

To qualify, visitors must bring a picture of their ex -- or anyone who has  shunned them -- then rip it up and throw it in a smoking cauldron, spokeswoman Kate Edwards told CNN. Visitors can then select from a range of curses to inflict on their ex.

"If you happen to be single or freshly shunned, this is a way to move on and have a great way of doing it," Edwards said.

Hexing your ex will earn you ÃÂ£5 ($7.20) off the entry price.

"It's very therapeutic, but it means in times of the credit crunch, you get money off as well," she said.

The "curses" are meant to be taken lightly, she said. All were developed by the Dungeon's creative team.

"They involve marvelously bad things happening to your ex," she said. "Nothing deadly, obviously. It's obviously tongue-in-cheek."

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question: What part of London would you find this object in?

answer: Dungeon,

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question: What is offered by the London attraction?

answer: the chance to curse former boyfriends, girlfriends or spouses

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question: They can select from a range of what?

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question: What must visitors do?

answer: bring a picture of their ex

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question: What can they inflict?

answer: range of curses

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question: What do visitors do with photos?

answer: rip it up and throw it in a smoking cauldron,

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question: London tourist attractions offers visitors what?

answer: the chance to curse former boyfriends, girlfriends or spouses -- and get a discount on the entry price at the same time.

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question: Visitors bring what?

answer: a picture of their ex

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question: What is the name of the tourist attraction?

answer: London Dungeon,

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