ARTS WEEKEND ARTS WEEKEND Take Steamy your ‘Nights’ pick ªª SECOND DANCE, SAME THERON ªª AS THE FIRST AND OTHERS p/13 UP FOR OSCARS: METRO’S BALLOT p/15 Weekend, February 27-29, 2004 • volume 3 • issue 211 • WWW.METROPOINT.COM Morocco security clashes with protesters over aid MOROCCO. Moroccan security forces Rebels clashed Thursday with protesters who had attacked a governor’s office during an angry demonstration over the gov- ernment’s response to Tuesday’s earth- quake. p/07 aim for Feds probe bribes claims in Medicare bill passage BOTTOM: WILLIAM PLOWMAN/METRO GETTYTOP: IMAGES Federal agents capital WASHINGTON, D.C. have begun examining whether bribes HAITI. Rebels battling to oust President were offered to win passage of a White Jean-Bertrand Aristide warned Thurs- House-backed Medicare prescription day an attack on the capital was immi- drug bill, a Capitol Hill newspaper nent as heavily armed U.S. security reported Thursday. p/02 forces helped foreigners fleeing the country. “The attack is imminent and I ask the population to stay home when we REUTERS attack Port-au-Prince,” rebel leader Guy Philippe told local radio. “I advise President Aristide to leave the national palace immediately, we will attack shortly at the national palace and capture him,” he said. He A young boy runs (top) past a added he will be in the capital by Sun- burning barricade in Port-au- day to celebrate his 36th birthday. Prince, Haiti, Thursday. A convoy of buses with diplomatic families, charity workers and an Two-year old Zoe Chantry orphan on the way to a new family in (right) tries to touch her father Spain sped out of a U.N. compound. Michel Chantry moments before Wives and children wept as they waved she, her mother Benedicte and goodbye to their husbands. ªª BRUINS LOSE TO CANADIENS other families of United Nations “It’s not an easy country right now,” AT HOME IN OVERTIME p/20 members and various U.N. worker Francois Handfield, a Cana- international organizations left en dian citizen, said before he boarded a route to the International Airport bus. “It’s going to blow up one day, German gambler faces in Port-au-Prince Thursday. that’s for sure.” ‘in-dentured’ servitude? Dozens of non-essential Barricades littered the streets before personnel were evacuated by a an expected attack by the rebels, many BERLIN. A German man who failed to special U.N. flight from Haiti into former soldiers who accuse Aristide of settle a gambling debt called police the Dominican Republic. being corrupt. (Reuters) after his dentures were seized as col- lateral, police said Thursday. “He called us saying he was afraid he might have to live off liquid food for the next few days,” said a police Priest sex abuse report released spokesman in the western city of Dort- mund. BOSTON. From 1950 to 2003, 162 Catholic linked to just seven priests. “It’s not an investigation. Police persuaded a 51-year-old local priests were accused of sexually abusing 815 Friday, a nationwide survey of clergy sex It’s not a study. It’s just a self- man to hand over the dentures after minors while serving in the Boston Archdio- abuse, commissioned by the American bish- survey. ... that was not cross- the owner promised to settle a $186.6 cese, according to a Church report released ops, is slated to be released. O’Malley chose to checked,” said David Clo- debt. Thursday. publicize the information pertaining to the hessy, national director of “He gave us a great big smile at get- “The Archdiocese is committed to doing Boston Archdiocese because the nationwide Survivors Network of those ting them back,” police said. (Reuters) everything humanly possible in order to report does not give specifics on particular Abused by Priests. ensure that this never happens again,” Arch- dioceses. The numbers differ from O’Malley bishop Sean P. O’Malley said in a statement. Thus far, the church has paid out $120.6 the ones released by Massa- FRIDAY’SWEATHER The number of priests accused of molesta- million in clergy abuse lawsuits. chusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly, tion represents about 7 percent of the 2,324 Representatives from victim advocacy who conducted a yearlong investigation. Reil- 43 26 p/22 ordained priests serving in the church at that groups said they believe the number of vic- ly found that more than 1,000 people were time. 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Democratic presidential hopeful John of a White House-backed Shortly after the House whether FBI agents had yet Edwards Wednesday unveiled a plan that he said would lift 10 Medicare prescription drug passed the prescription drug interviewed the congress- How did you get into million Americans out of poverty and cut the poverty rate. bill, a Capitol Hill newspaper bill in November, Rep. Nick man. decoupage? On the first stop on a three-day swing through California — reported Thursday. Smith, a Michigan Republi- The FBI is part of the Jus- I had always collected paper the top prize in next week’s Super Tuesday round of electoral con- can, said “bribes and special tice Department. Neither had goods from flea markets and tests — Edwards criticized the Bush administration for accept- House of Representatives deals” were offered to per- an immediate comment. But estate sales. My background ing the current poverty level and said there is a “moral respon- Democratic Leader Nancy suade members to vote “yes.” in December the Justice is painting and drawing, sibility” to help fight the problem. Pelosi of California was But Smith later backed off his Department said it would which drew me to images I “For too long Washington has dealt with these problems by unable to confirm the report bribery claim. review a request for an inves- could collage. dismissing them as things that our country must live with,” by Roll Call, but said, “An alle- Smith’s office had no tigation. (Reuters) Edwards told a cheering Tell us about your New Eng- crowd of mostly students land decoupage work and packed into an auditorium at THE FIRST ATTACK Powell: Korea nuke what it entailed. Pomona College. talks encouraging I am a Boston native and “So many poor Americans have always loved the North are invisible where they are Washington, D.C. Secre- Shore of Boston. It was at the ignored, unseen and unheard. tary of State Colin Powell Salem flea market that I made For so long, Washington has said Thursday six-way talks my first great discoveries. With those materials I made been able to dismiss poverty as STEPHEN CHERNIN/GETTY IMAGES aimed at dismantling North my first collection. a personal problem, a drug prob- Korea’s suspected nuclear lem,” he said. “Poverty has many caus- arms programs were prom- Where does the inspiration es but the biggest cause of all is the ising, the most upbeat U.S. for your collection come silence of people who can do something comments to date on the from? about it.” negotiations in China. Really, from the things I find. The top U.S. diplomat’s I usually find the image first, assessment contrasted with then wonder what I can do to communist North Korea’s transform it into something complaint that the United beautiful and functional. I find I Kerry blasts Bush, pledges to save jobs States was to blame for lack am attracted to old paper of progress in the talks. images, documents and pho- WASHINGTON, D.C. Democratic front-runner John Kerry, “The results of the first tos. In some way they “speak” fresh from easy wins in three Western states, adopted a theme two days of meetings are to me and in a way they come from rival John Edwards Wednesday and blamed President Bush positive. There is a positive alive or I feel that from a flat for the flow of U.S.