Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jean L. Tom '96, a member of the Minority Student Alliance, attended the meeting with Rudenstine...
...time they were written, such sentiments were heresy to the Left Bank literati and their grand panjandrum, Jean-Paul Sartre. Algeria was racked by violent attempts to liberate itself from colonialism; these would succeed two years after Camus's death. His pained middle position on the Algerian question -- deploring the atrocities committed by both sides -- drew scorn from the right and left, particularly Sartre and his circle, those existentialists who managed to find a place in their theory of limitless freedom for doctrinaire Marxism...
...George Bush's repatriation program, which he had blasted as "immoral" during the campaign, will quiet the President's critics and save Florida from a wave of unwanted immigrants. But the military thugs who rule Haiti will remain in power, and Clinton's promise to "restore democracy" -- and Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- will remain unfulfilled unless more is done. To that end, says the President, anything is possible, including force. For now, though, Clinton favors the sanctions endorsed by the U.N. Security Council last Friday, a set of measures certain only to further harm the average Haitian while the ruling elite...
Absent any discipline, warfare becomes an extension of crime by other means. The modern military model is the neighborhood gang, brothers and cousins, roaming, rule breaking, terrorizing. "Youth has no future in Rwanda," observes Jean-Claude Willame, professor of African politics at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. "To a certain extent, they don't give a damn about those Hutu and Tutsi things. They're paid...
Catherine (Judith Henry), the eldest daughter of Maheu and Maheude (Miou- Miou), a mining couple who have taken Etienne as a boarder, is courted by a brutish miner named Chaval (Jean-Roger Milo) although she and Etienne are actually in love. Chaval, in a rather ridiculous scene, approaches Catherine, who is attired in white, on the street, and asks where she is going. She responds that she intended to buy a ribbon, but doesn't have sufficient funds. He offers to purchase it for her with the ominous phrase, "Pay me back if you don't sleep with...