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These ideas strike local skeptics as overly ambitious and doomed to fail. "Just wait until the mosquitoes start bitin', and see how many tourists you get," scoffs Wyly. Emmanuel Osagie, the Southern University economist who drew up the proposal, believes that such objections are beside the point. "I don't think that in an area like this you can raise people's expectations too high," he says. "We know that the empowerment zone won't solve all our problems, but it can be a start. The problem here is to get people to believe that things can really get better...
Sony has released a new recording in its "Artist Laureate" series, this time featuring its premier chamber group--the quartet composed of violinist Isaac Stern, violist Jaime Laredo, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emmanuel Ax. This recording contrasts the piano quartets of Beethoven and Schumann, embracing both the Classical and Romantic periods in music...
...Emmanuel Ax returns with his rich and globular tone, but more often than not in this recording it acts as an obscuring miasmic veil, rather than a complement to the strings. He has an extremely heavy left hand and a matching right foot on the sustaining pedal. His efforts are more appropriate for piano concerti than for these subtly textured chamber works...
...looking for all the world like a Sunday driver out for a spin in his Nissan rental. But the illusion is soon broken by the arsenal in his car: an M-1 carbine, an Uzi submachine gun and two .45-cal. pistols. Life can be dangerous if you're Emmanuel ("Toto") Constant, founder of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, successor to the murderous Tontons Macoutes of the Duvalier...
...elite are after money: some just want power. A candidate angling to fill the seat of the deposed Aristide is Emmanuel Constant, leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. He presides from a wicker chair in his backyard over a ragtag group that has been accused of committing many of the 133 political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political...