Word: edouard
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...good news is that there hasn't been a coup d'etat in Haiti in the wake of violent protests over increased food prices. However Saturday's vote by 16 of the country's 27 lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis means that the country is in the middle of a severe leadership crisis - and that Haiti's Head of State, President Rene Preval, is now politically impotent, bereft of his chief executive...
...Rothschild collections were so well known that many works were traced and returned after World War II. The Israel Museum exhibits one luminous Dutch canvas by Pieter de Hooch stolen in Paris from Edouard de Rothschild and seized by Hitler's boundlessly rapacious second in command, Hermann Goering. But greed alone hardly explains the Nazis' frenzied grasp for Jewish-owned art, says curator Steinberg: "Taking an art collection was a way of stripping the Jew of what made him a citizen in the world." Out of gratitude for French help in restoring their stolen art, the Rothschilds donated...
...Sarkozy has been in tough spots before. In 1995, he backed Edouard Balladur, not Chirac, for President, and had to work his way back into the good books - just about - of Chirac and his circle. In 1999, he led his party to a disastrous defeat in European parliamentary elections, and was again pitched into the political wilderness. Now, having reached the pinnacle of French politics, Sarkozy is perversely back at rock bottom. His approval rating has dropped from 64% in September to just 39% this month...
...kind of navel-gazing at a time when the world is changing very fast, and we're struggling to produce popular culture. So much solicitude is touching. But hang on: what about American culture seen from Paris? Brad Pitt, successor of Humphrey Bogart? Madonna, heiress of Billie Holiday? Edouard Launet, IN LIBÉRATION...
Fortunately, leads Williams, De Metz, and Godina salvaged the play’s comic value. Their onstage rapport and commanding presence provided great entertainment, particularly in the final act when both Marcassol and Edouard pursue Claudine. The hysteria of the final act was very well executed, largely due to the pint-sized Godina, whose impassioned portrayal of a wronged wife and a buttoned-up lusty lady elicited the most laughs...