Word: bon
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...first story in the collection, "Bon Voyage, Mr. President," introduces a deposed Caribbean leader living in exile in Geneva. His circumstances are reduced, his health failing and he has no friends save a man who wants to sell him a funeral package. The President is a product of the Spanish power structure in the Americas. Dictators like Diaz and Rosas merely continued what the conquistadors and the Spanish monarchy had begun. And so the President is an exile in Europe, the place that engendered his kind, and paradoxically it is not until he returns to Latin America that he finds...
...Werner is most known for her trenchant wit and mordant bon mots, but on that dreary afternoon we sought her out--not without some trepidation, for stories of her cruelty to the media are legion--to chat about her new project, a rock/operatic adaptation of Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park." The project has been the topic of conversation in the best dining halls and common rooms this season, in no small part because of Ms. Werner's alleged connections to organized crime (which have never been substantiated, as she is quick to point...
...Bon Pain buzzed with the happy sounds ofchildren practicing on free kazoos they receivedthere. The restaurant also donated a snack foreach child in attendance...
...couple of weeks ago, though, I acquired a brand-new reason to be grateful for the work of the HUPD. I was the victim of a purse-snatching while I was having an advising session with a student over an afternoon cup of coffee at Au Bon Pain...
...Commencement day, for example, Officer Robert Cooper took a nine millimeter semiautomatic Glock pistol and two fully loaded magazines from a man outside the Au Bon Pain restaurant in Harvard Square. And last month, Detective Richard Mederos was involved in a high-speed chase and shootout with a New York man wanted for murder near the Medical School...