What rough beast?

Surely there's something in one of the Geneva conventions that covers this. Five weeks after the earthquake, the Freep pulls out the stops with three days.

Of Albom.

In Haiti.

It's the print version of American broadcasting's obsession with getting the anchor to the scene of the big story, with all the depth and nuance Albom brings:

They never had much.

But there was love.

And then the ground shook.

There isn't really much advice for the copy editor in this, because the copy editor is sort of like the undertaker who owes Don Corleone a favor: It's not going to be much fun, but it's too late to look for a way out.

At least there's something nice to say about the truncated home delivery schedule. There won't be a hard copy of Part 3 around the house to scare the kitties.