US troops occupied Haiti to restore order after a military coup. Guzy was covering a pro-democracy march when a grade went off. "The mob was about to tear apart the man they thought had thrown the grenade," she says. "The soldier had pulled him out and definitely saved his life. I had fallen to the ground and got this shot looking up at the action."
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She had just returned from family leave to her job as a photographer for the Post. Her mother was suffering from Alzheimer’s, and Guzy had been by her side in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. “I promised her I would help her through the journey,” Guzy says. “If it had been anywhere but Haiti, I could not have considered going. But I had to.”
She packed in 20 minutes, hitched a ride to New York with AP photographer Gerald Herbert and Post reporter Mary Beth Sheridan, caught a flight to the Dominican Republic, and made her way to Port-au-Prince. “It was a surreal scene,” she says. “To see places I had been so many times, with people dead under schools, palaces, churches, apartments.”
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The electoral system that fits best and would contribute most to your ‘Wheel of reform’ agenda is Direct Party and Representative Voting.
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This system is a form of PR for single member constituencies where the votes for the party and candidate are not conflated.
It would improve the general quality of our MPs – to get elected, the candidate depends more on his/her personal qualities and track record than on the popularity or otherwise of his/her party.
It would directly contribute to more than half the 24 changes you would like to see, and would be compatible with the rest.