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...sermon-like speeches that antagonized his enemies and mesmerized his followers, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide often described his movement as a lavalas, the Haitian term for a cleansing avalanche that will wash away tyranny and corruption. That image was particularly relevant last week, as a political lavalas carried the 37-year-old Roman Catholic priest to an overwhelming victory in Haiti's first truly democratic presidential elections...
...carnage occurred at a rally last week for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the popular priest who is the front runner in this Sunday's presidential elections and a survivor of at least three assassination attempts. Father Aristide blamed the violence on the Tontons Macoutes, the notorious secret police force loyal to the deposed Duvalier dictatorship. Together with the army, the Macoutes had forced cancellation of the 1987 elections by massacring 34 voters. But this time Haitians seemed determined to vote, no matter what calamities occurred on the campaign trail. Said a caller to Radio Haiti-Inter...
...event sponsored jointly by the department and the Society of Physics Students (SPS), approximately 30 students--ranging from first-years to doctoral candidates--mingled in Jefferson Hall, munching on food and chatting with faculty. The faculty present included Department Chair Bertrand I. Halperin '62, Head Tutor Margaret E. Law and several other members of the senior faculty...
...hell, but the postwar limbo may be worse. Grieving is a job for the strong. So says French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier in his exemplary Life and Nothing But. This epic romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War I, reins in its anger but not its wistful passion. Gruff Philippe Noiret plays a French officer assigned to choose the corpse that will serve as the nation's Unknown Soldier. As he assists two women -- an attractive aristocrat (Sabine Azema) and a young teacher (Pascale Vignal) -- in locating their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred...
While Mrs. Bertrand was upset by the New Kids' egos, her daughter had something different on her mind...