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...course, I agree with Lewis that the economic and political situation in Haiti is deplorable (a situation not helped, incidentally, by the Clinton administration's ill-advised 1994 military intervention on the behalf of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide). I do not believe that it is commensurate with the kind of stifling, Stalinist repression that Fidel Castro continues to wreak upon Cuba. All the same, it seems to me that if Lewis wants to raise awareness of the plight of Haitians, the way to do it is not to deny the plight of Cubans. And I agree that we should...
...born Angelina Jolie Voight, daughter of Oscar-winner Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Dad left not long after she was born. (The two are now on good, if occasionally strained, terms.) Raised by her single mother, Jolie struck out on her own at 16 and seems to revel in her reputation as a wild child. She talks openly about her drug experiences, about having had bisexual relationships and about how she gets her best kicks from kink. With her famous lips pushed into a wicked smile, she describes how she dragged an agent from the Creative Artists Agency...
...example, anyone looking for a survey of political philosophy among our Moral Reasoning classes will be disappointed to find no such thing offered. You can learn about "the ethics of everyday life" or "reason and morality," but you cannot study philosophy from Aristotle through Bertrand Russell...
...speech at the Law School yesterday, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically elected president of Haiti, called on the U.S. to tighten the economic blockade as part of the effort to restore his country to democracy...
...person, compared with $3,320 for the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America. Drug traffickers have also targeted Haiti. DEA officials believe as much as 15% of the cocaine in the U.S. may be coming through Port-au-Prince. There is growing speculation that former President JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE could profit from the chaos: a total collapse may encourage his supporters to bring him back to power...