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...Given the mounting violence and allegations and counter-allegations flying between rival Haitian candidates, the UN Mission and other foreign groupings, holding a credible election right now becomes more of a challenge. Presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker, who trails behind frontrunner and former president René Préval, has preemptively blamed "tampering" by the international community in the event that he loses. "The next day, you will see civil war," he predicts. Préval, on the other hand, is so confident of his popularity that he has done almost no campaigning. "His record speaks for itself," says...
...white fancy dress. It looks like a dreamscape, and the picture's title, A Carnival Evening, just adds to the enigma. The atmospheric, accomplished work could have been painted yesterday. In fact it's dated 1886, and was one of the first works shown in public by French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). The artist's flat, hard-edged style and singular imagination owed nothing to anybody. His pictures could be ordinary or outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious women naked in jungles. The odd and the commonplace co-existed inside his head...
Finally, to describe French society as “a society formerly of one cultural, linguistic, and ethnic mode” is to take the utopian aspiration of the Jacobin revolutionaries for an eternal truth. In 1790, Father Henri Gregoire pointed out that most French citizens did not speak French, and he made a long list of the various regional dialects and languages spoken in France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many immigrants settled in France. Among the 10 most common family names in France today, one can find “Garcia...
...meantime, the mine continues to be worked by thousands of illegal miners such as Henri Gonzlez. Laboring under a sweltering sun, he blasts a water cannon against clay to loosen any tiny gold-bearing nuggets. He then extracts the gold with mercury, which sticks to gold like glue. "Sometimes I spend 15 days at a time in here without finding anything," he says. Like most of his fellow miners, Gonzlez, 29, typically earns only enough to afford a shack made of zinc sheets and tree branches, set in a seedy mining camp where kids play in mercury-contaminated...
After working a few small restaurant jobs, including a chef gig at Cambridge’s Chez Henri, Mauger says he decided he needed more stability. “I didn’t make enough for health coverage,” he recalls. So, that was that...