Word: gurganus
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...Haiti needs a more genuine police force. Aristide, who in 1991 became Haiti's first democratically elected President, was eventually undone by his emasculation of the country's democratic institutions--especially its corrupt and threadbare cops, who defected to the rebels' side last month. Marine Colonel Mark Gurganus, a commander of international peacekeeping forces in Haiti, described Haiti's police last week as "devastated and demoralized." Philippe is a former police chief, and most of his rebels are ex-cops and ex-soldiers...
Even with more commercial works that play the regionals with one eye on the ultimate prize--Broadway--the audience participates in a more direct way. Last winter Ellen Burstyn played the title role in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, a one-woman stage adaptation of Allan Gurganus' best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. She was still stumbling a bit (engagingly, catching herself with a casual "I mean ...") as she tried to master the demanding part, but audiences had the frisson of being present at the development of what may (when...