Word: benoit
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...legislative interpretations. Bouchard now says he thinks the much discussed but still vague idea of a Quebec that is / politically sovereign but retains economic links with Canada "makes sense." Quebec, he complains, "is dying of ambiguity." Mulroney replaced Bouchard as his political lieutenant in Quebec with Industry Minister Benoit Bouchard (no relation), who said on national television that Quebec is "tired of being misunderstood." He warned, "What we have to understand is that this country is within four weeks of collapsing...
History proceeds in gossip and fractals. Fractals are the mysterious and apparently irrational forms proposed by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who says that reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid and surprises that ridicule the idea of order. The shape of a mountain is not a cone. Clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, reputations, fame, the passage of history itself (think about the past ten months) -- all these are fractal shapes...
...Washington, Francois Benoit, Haiti's Ambassador to the U.S., resigned in protest. In Port-au-Prince, Alvin P. Adams, the U.S. Ambassador, visited Avril to express "outrage," terming Avril's actions "indefensible." French President Francois Mitterrand was reported to have telephoned a tough rebuke to Avril, and later Paris announced that it was suspending aid to Haiti because of the crackdown. The U.S. and the World Bank may reassess plans for financial aid to the country...