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The Haitian-American hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean, left, filed papers on Thursday to run for president of Haiti. Several hundred supporters cheered as he arrived by motorcade at an electoral office in the capital, Port-au-Prince, still largely in ruins from the Jan. 12 earthquake. ''The United States has Barack Obama, and Haiti has Wyclef Jean,'' he shouted. His candidacy must still be approved by a review board to verify that he meets constitutional requirements, including having lived in Haiti for the five years before the election and never having held foreign citizenship. Mr. Jean, who was born in Haiti but raised in Brooklyn, has said his appointment as a roving ambassador by President Rene Preval exempts him from the residency requirement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The logistics of distributing any newspaper are daunting, but imagine not knowing, even a few days in advance, where the paper will be printed, who will deliver it, where the readers will be or how much danger they will be in. That is what Stars and Stripes faces in a new military deployment, and helps explain why the first copies did not reach Haiti until Saturday, 11 days after American troops began to arrive there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]