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Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson), henchmen of Los Angeles crime lord Marsellus Wallace (Rhames), retrieve a briefcase from some cheating kids. Three people die there, and a fourth in a getaway car. A specialist (Keitel) drops by to supervise the cleanup. At a diner, the henchmen's breakfast is interrupted by a thrill-crazy young couple (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) staging a holdup. He and Vincent go to see Marsellus, who is telling an aging boxer named Butch (Willis) to throw his next fight. Later, Vincent buys some potent heroin, then escorts the boss' sexy wife Mia (Thurman...
...voodoo hexes on the crosswalk to hobble U.S. invaders when they arrive. As an expression of the diplomacy-of-defiance that constitutes Haiti's foreign policy, it provided a crude but telling glimpse of what Lieut. General Raoul Cedras thinks of Clinton's threats to topple him and his henchmen...
...uniformed soldiers and thousands of plainclothes thugs who serve as the Haitian military's henchmen are only too pleased by the publicity surrounding this jerry-can stampede. The attention provides an effective smoke screen for those who are really keeping the military alive: the larger vessels that audaciously evade U.N. picket boats. The U.S., Canada and Argentina have stationed warships offshore, but are unable to maneuver in shallow waters. That leaves the jagged shoreline to "coast huggers," wildcat fuel runners who use the cover of darkness to spirit drums of gas and diesel into Haiti's biggest harbors...
...Clinton struggled to decide his next move, Haiti's henchmen were doing much the same. At week's end Jonassaint was desperately seeking people to join his Cabinet. According to Daniel Phillipe, who is slated to be chief of staff to the incoming President: "We are having trouble getting people to become ministers." He says prospective candidates have been frightened away by "people claiming to be calling for the U.S. embassy" who threaten CIA retribution or the revocation of U.S. visas. "We frankly don't know if these calls are really from U.S. officials, Aristide people or FRAPH," Phillipe says...
That's why it took nearly a decade of steadily plummeting returns before the University finally ousted Meyer's predecessor, Walter M. Cabot '55. And it's why many of Cabot's top henchmen, including Scott M. Sperling and Michael Eisenson--the managers of HMC's high-risk, high-gain private placement portfolio--continue to work at HMC, earning stratospheric salaries, despite their lackluster performance. Sperling and Eisenson achieved fame several years ago for becoming the first HMC officials to top the $1 million compensation barrier, just two years before the University marked down the value of their portfolio...