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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will end his exile and return to Haiti within the next week or so, ahead of the country's elections, his lawyer told CNN Saturday.

"He is headed back to Haiti," said Ira Kurzban, Aristide's longtime attorney. "We don't know when yet, but it will be before the elections."

A presidential runoff is scheduled for March 20.

Aristide was Haiti's first democratically-elected president. He was toppled in 2004 after a bloody revolt by street gangs and soldiers and has since been living in exile in South Africa.

— "Aristide to end exile and return to Haiti before vote, lawyer says"

Oh. Em. Gee.

The Devil's in the Writer's Block

When I sit down to write stuff, I'm always obsessed with the details that I'm likely to get wrong. I'm always wanting to jump on to the intertubes to verify some fact or another, and then, next thing you know, I've wasted hours of potential productive writing time.

Tonight, I watched The Next Three Days. And I'm willing to venture that the screenwriter for that film did not get as obsessed with details as I get. ( spoilers )

Okay, so, not terribly germane to the overall story/plot. But those moments took me out of my "willing suspension of disbelief" state.

I want to be very clear: I'm not recommending this as a good film. It's cheese all the way down. On the other hand, I also watched L'immortel (a.k.a. 22 Bullets), and it was fantastic. I mean, the whole genre of "I will take my revenge on the people who betrayed me one-by-one" suspense film is pretty formulaic. But, man, this one was good.