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Although May's traditionally calm seas encouraged the renewed exodus, the real culprit is a pervasive sense of hopelessness on the island fostered by the ambivalent policies of Haiti's neighbors. Military leaders seized power last September from the popularly elected President, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but the Organization of American States decided only this month to tighten its embargo by barring ships from their ports that traded with Haiti. The U.S. supports the embargo and is pressuring the European Community to stop sending supplies, but the Pentagon has refused to strong-arm its onetime military allies into accepting...
...British philosopher Bertrand Russell said in the 1950s that the Australians' laconic mode of living could "point the way to a happier destiny for man throughout the centuries to come." Australians may finally be developing the sort of culture that could match Russell's utopian vision. They are waking up to the fact that they are not so much isolated as irrevocably enmeshed in a new society -- neither totally European nor Asian nor Aboriginal but containing elements of all three -- that is just being born. The promise is that unlike much of the rest of the world, Australia...
...marked contrast to the intense political strife in his homeland of Haiti, exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide spoke calmly and quietly in a talk before 70 students and faculty in Lehman Hall yesterday...
...agreement calls for the eventual return to office of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a populist priest and champion of the poor; the formation of a Cabinet of national unity under Prime Minister-designate Rene Theodore, a former Aristide rival and Communist Party moderate; and a general amnesty for those involved in the coup...
...days later, The Washington Post revealed that U.S. business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...