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...Trouble In Haiti The unrest and violence in Haiti [LATIN AMERICA, March 15] seem part of a continuum that has haunted the country for 70 years. Among its most chaotic leaders was Dr. Fran?ois Duvalier, who ruled from 1957 until his death in 1971. We described "Papa Doc's" dictatorship in an Aug. 27, 1965, report...
...Duvalier's] eight years of power, the onetime country doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly...
...good, AskMen.com is a cheeky, sometimes raunchy website that gives men tips on everything from the coolest new cars to how to bed a woman in no time flat. Dating tips from the site's Doc Love range from "Remember guys: players aren't all bad" to "Beauty fades, but attitude lasts forever." There are pieces on how to shine your shoes and how to pick the best Scotch whisky. Each week the site spotlights a model, an actress and a female singer. AskMen is aimed at men, but any woman who wants insight into the male psyche (and refuses...
...acquired taste but substantial. Sometimes Milch's Shakespearean ambitions get away from him, and the story can drag. But the acting is strong, especially Carradine's leonine, sad gunslinger, who asks his handlers, "Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?" Then there's Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif), the town's physician and its secret keeper--he inspects Swearengen's whores, covers up cases of smallpox, ignores evidence of murder under duress and hides a young girl who witnessed the road agents' massacre--and the pressure has him wound like a watch spring. The best moments...
...apparatus--an Ed Wood--style space helmet mixed with a hair dryer--but, as his mind swims through the memory-erasure process, he decides that even the rotten memories of Clem are worth treasuring. How to stop all this, escape from Camp Brainwash, especially when the doc's klutzy technicians (Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst) are more attentive to their own weird erotic vectors than to the fellow whose love affair they are extracting...