Word: jeaned
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...AUTHOR: JEAN-MARIE BOURRE...
...that the fleeing Haitians are economic refugees, and therefore unworthy of political asylum. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to distinguish between the two in a country where people are routinely punished for real or suspected political sympathies. Since a military coup overthrew the democratically elected government of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991, Amnesty International has documented thousands of beatings, detentions, tortures, "disappearances" and deaths in Haiti...
...West Hollywood even the trend-sensitive Spago thrived after the 1986 tax change. "Our best years of the decade were 1988-89," brags owner Wolfgang Puck. Or take the posh Jean-Louis at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, where dinners run $90 (excluding wine) and where 40% of the weekday customers are writing off their meals. "I wasn't hurt at all ((by the 1986 act))," says owner Jean-Louis Palladin. He suspects that the new plan could cream someone like Roberto Donna, the owner of nearby Galileo, where 80% of the lunchers are lawyers. Yet Donna isn't bellyaching...
Mulroney will yield in mid-June, when his party chooses a successor, who will serve as Prime Minister until parliamentary elections are held, probably in September. Defense Minister Kim Campbell, 45, leads a passel of undeclared P.C. pretenders. The likely opponent, for now, would appear to be Jean Chretien, 59, chief of the Liberal Party, which led the Conservatives 45% to 25% in the latest poll...
...known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between him and his client is like a space between two worlds...