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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- An illegal immigrant dishwasher who lost $49,000 to the U.S. government as he tried to take it home to Guatemala will get some of the money back, his attorney said Wednesday.

Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant, managed to save $59,000 while working as a dishwasher for 11 years.

Pedro Zapeta was "very, very happy" when he learned about a federal appeals court ruling that says he is entitled to recover some of the money, said attorney Robert Gershman, who handled the financial end of Zapeta's case.

Zapeta was carrying $59,000 in cash when he was stopped at a security checkpoint at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in 2005. He told authorities he was returning home to Guatemala with the money he had saved working illegally as a dishwasher over 11 years.

But federal law requires that anyone leaving or entering the country with $10,000 or more must declare it. Because Zapeta had not done so, he was detained, and his money was seized.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the judge who fined Zapeta applied an incorrect standard in determining the amount to be forfeited. The appeals court ordered a hearing to set a new fine.

"I am extremely happy," Gershman said. "Even though he is not a citizen, it shows he has equal rights."

Gershman has said Zapeta, who does not speak English, was not trying to conceal the money but did not know the law. Zapeta had paid taxes on the earnings, he said, and under legal guidelines should be fined at most $5,000 for failing to report that he was traveling with the cash.

Circuit Court Judge James Cohn instead fined Zapeta $49,000, all the money he was carrying over the $10,000 limit.

"The government always acted as if the money was their own," Gershman said. "They acted almost entitled to it. But it's not their money. It was Pedro's, and the [appeals] court affirmed that."

Zapeta said last year that he had saved the money to build a house for himself and his family in his home village in the Guatemalan mountains. He returned to Guatemala this year under the threat of deportation, but his lawyers continued to argue that his fine was excessive.

Federal prosecutors in Miami did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision or on whether they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

As Zapeta's case was publicized, U.S. residents donated money to him, and Gershman set up a trust. It has received about $15,000 in donations, he said.

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(CNN) -- Artillery shells slammed into a hospital Sunday in the northern Sri Lankan district of Mullaittivu, where civilians -- including a growing number of children -- are being treated as government forces and Tamil rebels continue to clash.

A Sri Lankan soldier walks through Mullaittivu, the former military headquarters of the Tamil rebels.

More than 200 civilians and at least 30 children have been injured in the last three days of fighting, a relief worker told CNN Sunday.

"That is the absolute minimum (number of injured)," the aid worker, who did not want to be identified for fear of jeopardizing the work of relief organizations, said.

Government officials are accusing aid organizations and foreign media of sensationalizing civilian casualties.

"It looks as if it's convenient for certain agencies to exaggerate the numbers so that this can be converted to a humanitarian crisis in the public eye, " Secretary of Foreign Affairs Dr. Palitha Kohona told CNN.

On Sunday, Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised to "continue with the military offensive until we liberate the remaining area under LTTE (the rebel group) control," according to Sri Lanka's state-run news agency.  Watch a report on civilians caught in fighting Â»

A "handful" of United Nations staff are working around the clock to save a growing number of children caught in the crossfire, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday.

Children as young as 4 months old were being treated in local hospitals for shrapnel injuries and other "wounds of war," spokesman James Elder told CNN.

"There is just intense fighting in a small area where children and other civilians are," Elder said. "The space (where conflict is taking place) is shrinking and the fighting is augmenting."

Thursday, U.N. aid workers rescued 50 critically injured children and 105 adults, he said.

"We are trying to get as many people out of there as we can," Elder said.

Humanitarian groups say as many as 250,000 unprotected civilians are trapped in the area.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to allow safe passage to trapped civilians and urged the Tamil Tigers to promise the same.

"We have declared a safe zone for civilians, the coordinates of which were announced by the security forces," Rajapaksa said on his government's Web site. "It is unfortunate that the (Tamil Tiger group) is exploiting this declared safe zone for civilians by placing their heavy artillery within the safe zone and using it as a launching pad to attack security forces and indiscriminately kill civilians."

The fighting has created a "nightmarish" situation for civilians in the conflict zone, Elder said.

An emerging shortage of humanitarian supplies and diminished access to clean water, sanitation, and food are compounding a crisis, he said.

Sunday, Sri Lankan soldiers seized a key rebel stronghold in a surprise attack deep in Tamil held territory.

Troops crossed a lagoon and entered the town of Mullaittivu before encountering heavy resistance from Tamil fighters, according to the government-run news agency.

The The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- commonly known as the Tamil Tigers -- have fought for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983. The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead.

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(CNN) -- Academy Award-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who scored movies including "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" among others, died Sunday from cancer in Los Angeles. He was 84.

Movie composer Maurice Jarre pictured at the Berlin International Film Festival last month.

Jarre enjoyed an illustrious career, working with Hollywood directing legends including John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock and, most notably, David Lean.

Fellow French composer Alexandre Desplat, who interviewed Jarre for The Screening Room at the Berlin International Film Festival last month, told CNN Monday: "Maurice was an immense artist, an incredible symphonist, a magician of the melody and a benevolent human being."  Watch tribute to Maurice Jarre Â»

Jarre won Oscars in 1963 and 1966 for his collaborations on the Lean movies "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago" respectively.

He then mustered a further six Oscar nominations but his third award came once again through a further collaboration with Lean on " A Passage to India" in 1984.

He then swapped orchestral composition to become a pioneer of electronic scoring, working on the music for, among others, "Ghost," "Witness," "Dead Poet's Society" and "Fatal Attraction."

At the same time his son Jean-Michel Jarre became one of the world's best known electronic musicians with global hits such as "Oxygene" and huge outdoor concerts.

His final movie composition was for the 2000 film "I Dreamed of Africa."

Jarre's career included symphonies, ballet and theatre but it was for his 150 film scores that he was presented with an honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival last month - almost half a century after producer Sam Spiegel hired him to work on "Lawrence of Arabia."

Festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement late last year: "Film composers often are in the shadows of great directors and acting stars. It's different with Maurice Jarre; the music of 'Doctor Zhivago,' like much of his work, is world-famous and remains unforgotten in the history of cinema."

Speaking in Berlin to double-Oscar nominee Desplat -- who himself scored "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Queen" -- Jarre said: "I never really had a 'bust-up' with a good director. A good director will always find an intellectual understanding. And that's what was great - I had an opportunity with all these people. I don't think I can say that I ever worked with a bad director."

But Jarre also said that directing legends of the rank of Huston and Hitchock had disappeared and no longer existed, adding: "The only problem is now, there is more and more bad music that goes 'dang dang dang dang dang...' So...it's better to turn off the music, and listen to a concert of Mozart."

Senior producer Neil Curry and associate producer Lidz-Ama Appiah contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- A Tennessee man -- accused in a fatal attack at a military recruiting center in Arkansas in June -- wants to plead guilty and claims to have ties to al Qaeda in Yemen in a letter he wrote to the judge presiding over his case.

In the handwritten letter dated January 12, Abdul Hakim Muhammad said he did not want a trial and insisted the shooting was "justified" under jihad.

"This was a jihadi attack on infidel forces that didn't go as plan," he wrote. "Flat out truth."

It was not immediately clear whether the judge, Herbert Wright Jr., would accept the plea.

Muhammad's lawyer, Claiborne Ferguson, called the letter "highly inappropriate."

"If my client had the intention of pleading guilty, it is misguided and misinformed as to Arkansas law," Ferguson said from Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday. "He can't plead guilty to a capital crime."

That response is why Muhammad said he decided to bypass his lawyer with a letter to Wright. He wrote that he believed it was "a lie" that he could not plead guilty.

Muhammad, formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, is charged with killing Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18. The attack happened on June 1 at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In June, Muhammad pleaded not guilty to one count of capital murder and 16 counts of engaging in a terrorist act.

Before pleading not guilty, Muhammad waived his Miranda rights and gave a video statement indicating political and religious motives, authorities said.

He "stated that he was a practicing Muslim ... that he was mad at the U.S. military because of what they had done to Muslims in the past," Detective Tommy Hudson wrote in a police report at the time.

Muhammad told police "he fired several rounds at the soldiers with the intent of killing them," according to Hudson's report.

In his letter to the judge, Muhammad claimed he had links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, a group that has claimed responsibility for the attempting bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

"My lawyer has no defense," he wrote. "I wasn't insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this act. Which I believe and it is justified according to Islamic laws and the Islamic religion jihad -- to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims."

CNN's Charley Keyes contributed to this report.

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LINKENHOLT, England (CNN) -- Hidden away in the hills of Hampshire lies the village of Linkenholt. This idyllic community, home to just 50 people comes complete with grand Edwardian manor house, cricket pavilion and grounds, blacksmith's forge, rectory, shooting grounds, 22 houses and grade 2 listed cottages.

The current owner has ensured that houses are not sold off in the near future.

It's all one could ever want from a quintessential English village, and now it is on sale for $33 million.

Once owned by English cricketer Herbert Blagrave, the estate was left to his own charitable trust which has now put the entire village -- church not included -- up for sale. "That," joked local estate agent Tim Sherston, "is owned by God."

In times of financial downturn and falling house prices, the decision to sell up is curious. The trust says though it wants to free up the capital tied up in the estate so it can give more to charity on an annual basis.

Sherston maintains that Linkenholt is not only a rare opportunity; it is a sound buy. "Big time investors will look upon it as a safe haven to place their money because in five years you're going to see a great deal of appreciation here, so this is perfect." The new owner could also take away a significant income from the rent of the houses.  Watch as village goes on sale Â»

Likely buyers are private individuals interested either in farming or the shoot, regarded as one of the finest in the south of England, according to Sherston. There has also been some foreign interest though he adds "the village is run very much as it has been for the last 200 to 300 years and it is the trustees' hope that the new owner will continue to run it in the same manner."

Provisions have been made by the trust to ensure the houses are not sold off in the near future. Only the manor house will be vacant for the new owner.

But locals do worry about their new landlord. The village thatcher Paul Raynsford told CNN: "I'd sooner not see a banker or someone who's going to asset strip it. I'd like to see a film star, pop star, footballer, someone who just wants to buy it so they can say 'I'm the lord of the manor.'"

Ray Smith, known locally as "the Sheriff," has worked as the estate's manager for 50 years. He says: "I'd like to see an Englishman live in the manor, run the farm and the shoot like it used to be."

Indeed, Linkenholt is idyllic; within the beautiful surroundings classified as an area of outstanding beauty, this is a village full of characters and local tales.

Ray's wife Elsie talks of how they met as teenagers cycling past each other everyday on the way to work along the same path. Stopping one day to help with her broken bike, they have been together ever since. He made the permanent move to Linkenholt when the keeper before him caused a local scandal when caught illegally shooting the ground's deer.

Two doors down lives Elsie's sister, who is married to Ray's brother. The sisters were born here, christened and later married in the church here, worked in the cricket club, and though their own children have moved further afield, they would never leave. Their father even died on Linkenholt's cricket ground during a game in the 1930s.

Having dedicated their lives to the village, the Smiths and childhood friend Alan Dewey, another original local, were given the houses in which they live by the trust. Ray adds: "I'm on holiday all the time. With a place like this to sit in the sun and look at all the views, I don't think you'd want to go anywhere else."

Though the media has shone a temporary light on Linkenholt, the hope after the arrival of the new owner is that the village will revert back to times of old, unspoilt and wonderfully English.

Reiterating the ideal of having a new lord of the manor, blacksmith Colin Boast adds: "We would like to see someone come in and take the village to their heart and to love it like the people here do."

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question: What is the sale price of the village?

answer: $33 million.

text: $33 million.

question: What is the name of the village?

answer: Linkenholt.

text: Linkenholt.

question: What country is the village located in?

answer: England

text: England

question: Where is up for sale!

answer: Linkenholt.

text: Linkenholt.

question: What village is up for sale?

answer: Linkenholt.

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question: At what price is the village being sold for?

answer: $33 million.

text: $33 million.

question: Who put village on market?

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(CNN) -- There was a phrase, or so we have long been told, that was heard in occupied Europe during World War II.

It was often said as a whisper, the story goes. It had the sound of a prayer.

The words were so simple, but to people who were feeling utterly abandoned and who needed help, those words meant so much.

Four words:

"The Americans are coming."

Sometimes we forget about the power of those words, and about how, for so long, they defined the real meaning of what this country, at its best, could be.

Sometimes, in the midst of all the bad news, in the midst of the mistakes this country inevitably makes, we lose sight of how much the people of the United States are counted on by those in need.

Which is why the humanitarian efforts in Haiti this month, in the wake of the earthquake, have been a reminder of who we are when we strive to find our finest selves.

The relief efforts have been an international undertaking; the heartache on the streets of Haiti has summoned compassionate and heroic assistance from around the globe, all of it deserving of praise and gratitude.

But the United States has been at the forefront, as it has so often seemed to be in so many places when hope was in short supply. It is almost beyond imagining to think what has been in the terrified minds of the citizens of Haiti who have been without water, without food, without a way to rescue their trapped and dying children. When there is nothing left to depend on, when all is desolation and despair, what must the hungry and the hurt wish for as they look into the empty distance?

Someone to care.

Someone to travel many miles, with the will and the means to heal.

The slowness with which medical supplies and water and heavy equipment have reached the people of Haiti has been thoroughly reported. Some of the results of the relief effort have been troubling, beset by bottlenecks and breakdowns under arduous conditions. But this is not about the frustrations in getting the job done. It is about the American impulse to help.

There is nothing particularly controversial, these days, about pointing out the failings of the United States. You can say just about any derogatory thing about the U.S., and it's not especially shocking. We're used to hearing it.

Already, as the tragedy in Haiti continues to unfold, there have been pockets of harsh criticism of America's efforts to help. French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet alluded to the United States "occupying" Haiti instead of assisting it. It is not the first time the United States has been chastised, and it will not be the last. The history of the U.S. involvement in Haiti has not always been a happy or unsullied one.

But perhaps we can take just a moment to think about the honor that is inherent in being the ones who, at junctures like this one, are counted on -- the ones who show up, every time.

During World War II, those four words -- "The Americans are coming" -- referred to the armed forces who had traveled across the ocean to liberate the people the Nazis had enslaved. In times of natural disaster, the context is different.

In Haiti the words refer to the 82nd Airborne, yes, but they also refer to the American doctors who are volunteering their time and risking their own safety to soothe the pain of people they had never before met. The words refer to the American volunteers assisting at Haitian orphanages, not giving up on the children who have no families to comfort them. The words refer to the American search-and-rescue teams who work past the point of exhaustion as they seek signs of the living among the rubble, and they refer to the Americans back home who, during difficult economic times in the U.S., have donated their money to help people who, for now, have no way to say thank you.

The focus of the news will shift soon enough -- that shift has already started. There will be other crises, other major stories. We, as a country and as individuals, will continue to be imperfect.

There will be political squabbles and high-decibel partisan fights. We will at times focus on the trivial and the coarse.

At such times, we might do well to pause and recall the sound of those four words.

And to let the words remind us that, when we set our souls to it, we still can aspire to be the hope of the world.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

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question: What has been criticized?

answer: America's efforts to help.

text: America's efforts to help.

question: Where is the aid going?

answer: Haiti

text: Haiti

question: What can Americans still aspire to be?

answer: the hope of the world.

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Durham, North Carolina (CNN) -- To define someone as a looter is not simply to describe him, or her, through an act, it is to make a moral judgment. It is to characterize the person as lawless and criminal. It connotes someone who is without self-restraint; an animal; wanton and depraved.

It is a description that is void of empathy for someone who is consciously or subconsciously viewed as "the other." Tragically, it fits into the stereotype that many have about people of African descent, be they African-Americans or Haitian-Americans.

The news media have to stop describing starving Haitians who are simply trying to survive the earthquake and aftershocks that took their homes, their loved ones, and all their possessions by this highly derogatory term.

It's a lesson they should have learned covering the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.  I remember the news accounts then that described black residents of New Orleans as "looters," but used benign words to describe white residents engaged in the same action: taking things.

Academics have found repeated instances of this in media content analyses after disasters. One example, widely disseminated on the web post-Katrina, juxtaposed an Associated Press photo that showed a young black man wading through chest-high water "after looting a grocery store" (said the caption), with an AFP/Getty photo of a white woman in the same position, although the caption this time described her "finding" food "from a local grocery store."

It is time to put this practice to rest.

Put yourself in the position of the average Haitian in Port-au-Prince. One minute you were going about your business, the next minute the earth shook and literally your world crumbled all around you. But you were one of the lucky ones, you survived the earthquake. Injured? Yes. But alive.

Your first thought is to cry out for your family, especially your kids. But most of your family is buried under a rubble pile somewhere. You had four children but only one survived the earthquake. You have spent the last few days, along with your fellow survivors, digging through the rubble trying to find them.

It is now a week after the earthquake, and you have eaten little or nothing. You are hungry and thirsty, and while you hear rumors of aid coming, you have not seen any evidence of it.

You have not heard from the president and indeed you've heard rumors that his wife is dead. Perhaps he left the country; you would too, if you could. There is no police presence at all. No governmental authority to provide support. There are no markets.

The only money you have are the few gourdes (Haitian dollars) that you have in your pockets. The rest of your money is in the safe place you always kept it -- but it is now buried with your food. The banks are not open. There is no one to borrow from; they are all in the same boat as you. There are no functioning institutions.

You have family in the United States and they are desperately trying to get you some help. They have contacted all of the big aid agencies, but those agencies have issues of their own. Some have lost staff members. They are doing the best they can, but they have no idea that you exist and you have no way of finding them. The roads are impassable, and they can't get clearance from whoever is in charge of the airport to land their planes, which bring much needed supplies.

They're afraid to go anywhere without security because they've heard that the people are becoming restless. Indeed, though you do not know this, the U.S. military is also worried that citizens will get violent and start stealing. The United Nations is waiting for more troops, and the doctors have stopped treating patients because of those same fears: violence, looting.

Under normal circumstances you would not think of taking food without paying for it. You are what other Haitians would call "bien eleve" not "mal eleve." By that they mean you were well-raised, with manners and dignity.

Haitians put a strong premium on dignity. To take something for which you have not paid does not only offend your sense of legality but also your sense of personhood. It is undignified. But not only are you starving, so is your only surviving child. You would prefer to pay, but whom? What would you pay with? You'd prefer to wait, but for whom? How long can you afford to wait?

You feel that your desperate state is evidence that you have been abandoned by your family, your country, the international community, and BondiÃ© (God). (The Creole word for God literally means "good God.")

So you take. You take just enough for a couple of days and a couple of family members. You take and you run to feed those for whom the only measure of fortune is survival in Haiti, post-earthquake. You take and you run.

Are you a looter? Try as we might to prevent it, the answer to that question is inevitably racialized. We cannot separate the word looting from its racial implications or the supposed crime of looting from its racial origins. In the throes of the civil rights movement in the United States, many states made looting a crime. Almost all of these states were southern states that had a history of criminalizing behavior that they associated more with African-Americans than with whites.

Even so, the criminal law, for all of its shortcomings, is often more sophisticated than we are. It recognizes that context matters. It has been developed with concepts -- such as necessity and justification -- to identify the circumstances under which a person who would normally be held culpable can be held either less culpable or not at all culpable. Taking food is different than taking a television.

It is past time for our news media to develop similar sophistication. It is time to stop characterizing black people trying to survive in dire circumstances as looters. Are they takers? Yes. Are they looters? Let's wait for a criminal conviction first.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Guy-Uriel Charles.

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text: earthquake

text: and

text: aftershocks

text: that

text: took

text: their

text: homes

text: their

text: loved

text: ones

text: and

text: all

text: their

text: possessions

text: by

text: this

text: highly

text: derogatory

text: term

text: It

text: 's

text: a

text: lesson

text: they

text: should

text: have

text: learned

text: covering

text: the

text: devastation

text: wrought

text: by

text: Hurricane

text: Katrina

text: I

text: remember

text: the

text: news

text: accounts

text: then

text: that

text: described

text: black

text: residents

text: of

text: New

text: Orleans

text: as

text: looters

text: but

text: used

text: benign

text: words

text: to

text: describe

text: white

text: residents

text: engaged

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: action

text: taking

text: things

text: Academics

text: have

text: found

text: repeated

text: instances

text: of

text: this

text: in

text: media

text: content

text: analyses

text: after

text: disasters

text: One

text: example

text: widely

text: disseminated

text: on

text: the

text: web

text: post

text: Katrina

text: juxtaposed

text: an

text: Associated

text: Press

text: photo

text: that

text: showed

text: a

text: young

text: black

text: man

text: wading

text: through

text: chest

text: high

text: water

text: after

text: looting

text: a

text: grocery

text: store

text: said

text: the

text: caption

text: with

text: an

text: AFP

text: Getty

text: photo

text: of

text: a

text: white

text: woman

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: position

text: although

text: the

text: caption

text: this

text: time

text: described

text: her

text: finding

text: food

text: from

text: a

text: local

text: grocery

text: store

text: It

text: is

text: time

text: to

text: put

text: this

text: practice

text: to

text: rest

text: Put

text: yourself

text: in

text: the

text: position

text: of

text: the

text: average

text: Haitian

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: One

text: minute

text: you

text: were

text: going

text: about

text: your

text: business

text: the

text: next

text: minute

text: the

text: earth

text: shook

text: and

text: literally

text: your

text: world

text: crumbled

text: all

text: around

text: you

text: But

text: you

text: were

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: lucky

text: ones

text: you

text: survived

text: the

text: earthquake

text: Injured

text: Yes

text: But

text: alive

text: Your

text: first

text: thought

text: is

text: to

text: cry

text: out

text: for

text: your

text: family

text: especially

text: your

text: kids

text: But

text: most

text: of

text: your

text: family

text: is

text: buried

text: under

text: a

text: rubble

text: pile

text: somewhere

text: You

text: had

text: four

text: children

text: but

text: only

text: one

text: survived

text: the

text: earthquake

text: You

text: have

text: spent

text: the

text: last

text: few

text: days

text: along

text: with

text: your

text: fellow

text: survivors

text: digging

text: through

text: the

text: rubble

text: trying

text: to

text: find

text: them

text: It

text: is

text: now

text: a

text: week

text: after

text: the

text: earthquake

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: eaten

text: little

text: or

text: nothing

text: You

text: are

text: hungry

text: and

text: thirsty

text: and

text: while

text: you

text: hear

text: rumors

text: of

text: aid

text: coming

text: you

text: have

text: not

text: seen

text: any

text: evidence

text: of

text: it

text: You

text: have

text: not

text: heard

text: from

text: the

text: president

text: and

text: indeed

text: you

text: 've

text: heard

text: rumors

text: that

text: his

text: wife

text: is

text: dead

text: Perhaps

text: he

text: left

text: the

text: country

text: you

text: would

text: too

text: if

text: you

text: could

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: police

text: presence

text: at

text: all

text: No

text: governmental

text: authority

text: to

text: provide

text: support

text: There

text: are

text: no

text: markets

text: The

text: only

text: money

text: you

text: have

text: are

text: the

text: few

text: gourdes

text: Haitian

text: dollars

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: in

text: your

text: pockets

text: The

text: rest

text: of

text: your

text: money

text: is

text: in

text: the

text: safe

text: place

text: you

text: always

text: kept

text: it

text: but

text: it

text: is

text: now

text: buried

text: with

text: your

text: food

text: The

text: banks

text: are

text: not

text: open

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: one

text: to

text: borrow

text: from

text: they

text: are

text: all

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: boat

text: as

text: you

text: There

text: are

text: no

text: functioning

text: institutions

text: You

text: have

text: family

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: they

text: are

text: desperately

text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: you

text: some

text: help

text: They

text: have

text: contacted

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: big

text: aid

text: agencies

text: but

text: those

text: agencies

text: have

text: issues

text: of

text: their

text: own

text: Some

text: have

text: lost

text: staff

text: members

text: They

text: are

text: doing

text: the

text: best

text: they

text: can

text: but

text: they

text: have

text: no

text: idea

text: that

text: you

text: exist

text: and

text: you

text: have

text: no

text: way

text: of

text: finding

text: them

text: The

text: roads

text: are

text: impassable

text: and

text: they

text: ca

text: n't

text: get

text: clearance

text: from

text: whoever

text: is

text: in

text: charge

text: of

text: the

text: airport

text: to

text: land

text: their

text: planes

text: which

text: bring

text: much

text: needed

text: supplies

text: They

text: 're

text: afraid

text: to

text: go

text: anywhere

text: without

text: security

text: because

text: they

text: 've

text: heard

text: that

text: the

text: people

text: are

text: becoming

text: restless

text: Indeed

text: though

text: you

text: do

text: not

text: know

text: this

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: is

text: also

text: worried

text: that

text: citizens

text: will

text: get

text: violent

text: and

text: start

text: stealing

text: The

text: United

text: Nations

text: is

text: waiting

text: for

text: more

text: troops

text: and

text: the

text: doctors

text: have

text: stopped

text: treating

text: patients

text: because

text: of

text: those

text: same

text: fears

text: violence

text: looting

text: Under

text: normal

text: circumstances

text: you

text: would

text: not

text: think

text: of

text: taking

text: food

text: without

text: paying

text: for

text: it

text: You

text: are

text: what

text: other

text: Haitians

text: would

text: call

text: bien

text: eleve

text: not

text: mal

text: eleve

text: By

text: that

text: they

text: mean

text: you

text: were

text: well

text: raised

text: with

text: manners

text: and

text: dignity

text: Haitians

text: put

text: a

text: strong

text: premium

text: on

text: dignity

text: To

text: take

text: something

text: for

text: which

text: you

text: have

text: not

text: paid

text: does

text: not

text: only

text: offend

text: your

text: sense

text: of

text: legality

text: but

text: also

text: your

text: sense

text: of

text: personhood

text: It

text: is

text: undignified

text: But

text: not

text: only

text: are

text: you

text: starving

text: so

text: is

text: your

text: only

text: surviving

text: child

text: You

text: would

text: prefer

text: to

text: pay

text: but

text: whom

text: What

text: would

text: you

text: pay

text: with

text: You

text: 'd

text: prefer

text: to

text: wait

text: but

text: for

text: whom

text: How

text: long

text: can

text: you

text: afford

text: to

text: wait

text: You

text: feel

text: that

text: your

text: desperate

text: state

text: is

text: evidence

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: been

text: abandoned

text: by

text: your

text: family

text: your

text: country

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: and

text: BondiÃ

text: God

text: The

text: Creole

text: word

text: for

text: God

text: literally

text: means

text: good

text: God

text: So

text: you

text: take

text: You

text: take

text: just

text: enough

text: for

text: a

text: couple

text: of

text: days

text: and

text: a

text: couple

text: of

text: family

text: members

text: You

text: take

text: and

text: you

text: run

text: to

text: feed

text: those

text: for

text: whom

text: the

text: only

text: measure

text: of

text: fortune

text: is

text: survival

text: in

text: Haiti

text: post

text: earthquake

text: You

text: take

text: and

text: you

text: run

text: Are

text: you

text: a

text: looter

text: Try

text: as

text: we

text: might

text: to

text: prevent

text: it

text: the

text: answer

text: to

text: that

text: question

text: is

text: inevitably

text: racialized

text: We

text: can

text: not

text: separate

text: the

text: word

text: looting

text: from

text: its

text: racial

text: implications

text: or

text: the

text: supposed

text: crime

text: of

text: looting

text: from

text: its

text: racial

text: origins

text: In

text: the

text: throes

text: of

text: the

text: civil

text: rights

text: movement

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: many

text: states

text: made

text: looting

text: a

text: crime

text: Almost

text: all

text: of

text: these

text: states

text: were

text: southern

text: states

text: that

text: had

text: a

text: history

text: of

text: criminalizing

text: behavior

text: that

text: they

text: associated

text: more

text: with

text: African

text: Americans

text: than

text: with

text: whites

text: Even

text: so

text: the

text: criminal

text: law

text: for

text: all

text: of

text: its

text: shortcomings

text: is

text: often

text: more

text: sophisticated

text: than

text: we

text: are

text: It

text: recognizes

text: that

text: context

text: matters

text: It

text: has

text: been

text: developed

text: with

text: concepts

text: such

text: as

text: necessity

text: and

text: justification

text: to

text: identify

text: the

text: circumstances

text: under

text: which

text: a

text: person

text: who

text: would

text: normally

text: be

text: held

text: culpable

text: can

text: be

text: held

text: either

text: less

text: culpable

text: or

text: not

text: at

text: all

text: culpable

text: Taking

text: food

text: is

text: different

text: than

text: taking

text: a

text: television

text: It

text: is

text: past

text: time

text: for

text: our

text: news

text: media

text: to

text: develop

text: similar

text: sophistication

text: It

text: is

text: time

text: to

text: stop

text: characterizing

text: black

text: people

text: trying

text: to

text: survive

text: in

text: dire

text: circumstances

text: as

text: looters

text: Are

text: they

text: takers

text: Yes

text: Are

text: they

text: looters

text: Let

text: 's

text: wait

text: for

text: a

text: criminal

text: conviction

text: first

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: Guy

text: Uriel

text: Charles

question: What does Charles say calling the victims looters does?

answer: characterize the person as lawless and criminal.

text: characterize the person as lawless and criminal.

question: Who says that calling some Haiti victims looters advances a racial stereotype?

answer: Guy-Uriel Charles

text: Guy-Uriel Charles