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...cogollo rule. Many citizens complained that Chavez's government was initially slow to respond to the disaster. They conceded, however, that he was doing more than his effete predecessors would probably have done--dispatching troops to set up relocation camps and touring the devastated areas in his trademark red beret. On Dec. 15, the day the flooding began, voters approved his new federal constitution, which is intended to make Venezuela a more equitable democracy...
Maher must have provided the files. Co-workers at New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where the former Green Beret worked for nine years, describe him as a caring professional. But his former landlord in Auburn, Maine, Colby Dill, remembers Maher mostly for his aggressive behavior. "When you were in the apartment, you wanted to make sure the door was between you and him," says Dill. "He made threats...
...rings and jewelry, pops up in rock songs and operas and art shows. This apotheosis of his image has been accompanied by a parallel disappearance of the real man, swallowed by the myth. Most of those who idolize the incendiary guerrilla with the star on his beret were born long after his demise and have only the sketchiest knowledge of his goals or his life. Gone is the generous Che who tended wounded enemy soldiers, gone is the vulnerable warrior who wanted to curtail his love of life lest it make him less effective in combat and gone also...
...summer following my sophomore year, I worked part-time at the C'est Bon on Mass. Ave. The store's customers included throngs of tourists, a magician who turned $1 bills into twenties and proceeded to pay me with them, a 70-ish year-old man in a green beret and combat boots who liked to bring me stuffed animals and, most significantly, some of the thousand or so students attending Harvard Summer School. High-schoolers freed of parental restrictions for the summer, carrying light academic loads relative to the average undergraduate, they were an image of the carefree college...
...your Raspberry Beret has begun to look a little frayed, don't despair. THE ARTIST (formerly known as sane) has announced plans to rerecord all 17 albums he made between 1978 and 1996 with his former label Warner Bros. Yes, such classics as Controversy, 1999 and Purple Rain can be yours, again. The Artist has been feuding with Warner Bros. for years, in part because he wants full ownership of his output. By rerecording his catalog and releasing it on his own label, he'll retain control of the master recordings--not to mention reap more profits. Plus, the Artist...