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Damon, Singer Jean Help in Haiti

Call on UN to raise $100M for storm recovery

By Elizabeth Wolff, Newser User

Posted Sep 15, 2008 11:07 AM CDT

(Newser) – Matt Damon and singer Wyclef Jean waded through knee-deep flood waters during a tour of decimated Gonaives, Haiti, yesterday to call attention to the widespread suffering that has followed tropical storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike. "I'm speechless, I can't believe it," Damon told... Read full story »

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