Word: bertrande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final thought, there are also times when one comes to accept alternatives to suicide by developing a new and caring relationship with oneself. Bertrand Russell in his autobiography recalled that "there was a footpath leading across the fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics...
...narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely Lady Ottoline Morrell (Tilda Swinton...
Washington -- Although they wonUt say so publicly, some Clinton Administration officials are convinced -- along with Jesse Helms -- that exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide did in fact order the 1991 murder of Roger Lafontant, a thuggish Duvalier militia leader. One senior policymaker says the murder allegation was mentioned in the State Department human-rights report on Haiti "because we believe it to be true." However, even these officials support the reinstatement of Aristide as Haiti's President, believing the continued rule of the Haitian military is a far more terrible prospect...
...balconies of shuttered shops. They are ragged and vicious, an army of thugs pulled together by Haiti's uniformed rulers from the remnants of the feared Tontons Macoutes, enforcers who served the Duvalier dictatorships, and hundreds of hangers-on who were fired from menial government jobs when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took office...
...Madeleine Albright -- and it still is. The Administration's sweet talk about restoring democracy in Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances are becoming common. Foreigners can flee at will, and many are doing so, including those charged with monitoring human-rights violations, but the thousands of Haitians who have been systematically repressed since the 1991 military coup are stuck. No matter, says...