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Homeless people in the Square have long complained of rough treatment by area police and entrepreneurs. Au Bon Pain, the sandwich shop in Holyoke Center, has in recent years worked out an accommodation with the area homeless, who often use its outdoor tables and chairs. But Au Bon Pain's efforts are unique...
...them present insoluble problems for the conservator -- see them now, they won't be around in another 50 years -- and yet, in a perverse way, they look like the work of a craftsman-artist obsessed with nuance, an art that is not raw at all but cooked exactly au point...
...Harvard Square, try Au Bon Pain or Rebecca's Cafe for decent versions...
...only government offices still working are the tax collector and the local police post, which boasts a .50-cal. machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead we grow charcoal...
...even more chilling reception awaited Obrin Ossou, a political activist who had spent weeks hiding in mangrove swamps along the coast before finally landing a berth on the Dieu Veut. According to his brother Miguel, Ossou was pulled from the line of refugees as he disembarked in Port-au-Prince. He has not been heard from since. For the past year, Miguel has paid radio stations to broadcast appeals for anyone who might know what happened to his brother. "I believe he is dead," he confesses. Local villagers are more certain of Ossou's fate. "He was beaten to death...