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Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier has fallen on hard times. Following his 1986 flight from Haiti to the French Riviera, he installed his shopaholic wife Michele and their children in a palatial home near Cannes. Two years ago, Mme. Duvalier divorced him, taking the children and a large chunk of the assets. Duvalier quickly ran through his remaining funds -- once estimated at $400 million -- and now lives with his mother Simone, 80, in a scruffy villa with no telephone (cut off for unpaid bills) and a broken wire fence surrounding an unkempt garden. Last week he disappeared for parts unknown...
American Cylinder, a company that can right fallen cranes, was expected to lift the toppled construction machine last night...
...mighty have fallen. In 1991, Holy Cross had an undefeated season. Now they may be the doormats of Patriot League without...
What kind of mentality produces this sort of statement, that any new community good must be earmarked for inevitable destruction? Is it the same mentality that drives a child to come crashing into a field of newly-fallen snow, to be the first to make his mark on something pristine? If it is, the mentality is mistaken...
...Pete Sampras may just be the best role model for young athletes in any sport. His gutsy performance in the recent Davis Cup tie against Sweden, offering himself up to his country and a fallen friend (Vitas Geralitus), shows us that athletes can still believe in icons other than money, even when his body and mind might disagree with his heart...