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DIED. GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection; in Cuba. Although the lifelong communist was an early ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's, standing by the former Haitian President during his 1991 ouster and his 1994 return to power, the two had a falling out in 1997, when Pierre-Charles accused Aristide of betraying the poor and drifting toward dictatorship. In 2001 Aristide backers burned down the home of Pierre-Charles, who continued to stage protests until the Haitian President finally left the country last February...
...paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. He became a powerful spokesman for spinal-cord injuries, including the use of fetal stem cells for medical research, while continuing to work in films as an actor and director. DIED GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection; in Havana, Cuba. Although the lifelong communist was an early ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's, standing by the former Haitian President during his 1991 ouster and his 1994 return to power, the two had a falling...
...chart that direction, Chrysler handed the sketches for the 300 to Gilles, a maverick designer who as a teenager was inspired by race cars and dreamed of designing for Chrysler. Born in New York City into a Haitian immigrant family and raised in Montreal, Gilles was drawing cars at age 8. In the early 1980s, his sketches caught the attention of an aunt, who wrote to Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca for advice. A few weeks later, a letter urging Gilles to attend design school arrived from K. Neil Walling, then Chrysler's design chief. Following a stint at an engineering...
Timothy Pickering, a Senator from Massachusetts who had served as John Adams' Secretary of State, wrote Jefferson to protest his refusal to aid the new Haitian republic: "Are these men not merely to be abandoned to their own efforts but to be deprived of those necessary supplies which for a series of years, they have been accustomed to receive from the United States, and without which they cannot subsist...
...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4¢ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...