6 MARCH 2004, page 20

Nightmare In The Caribbean

In the 200 years since independence, Haiti has endured a vicious cycle of coups: Ian Thomson examines the background to the latest crisis S hortly after Christmas I went to......

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THEODORE DALRYMPLE When I was 12 years old, I had an English teacher whom I admired to the point of hero-worship, one of whose aphorisms was that poetry was man's natural form......