Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should try. Philosophers from Aristotle to the present have extolled the good inherent in political life. Genevan Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceived of the public life as the sole basis of virtue in human beings. This is the ideal of which we have lost sight. Instead, for us, political participation is a dirty word...
...days later, The Washington Post revealed that U.S. business leaders had pressured the administration to relax the sanctions. Most poor Haitians say they will suffer anything to get back their beloved leader, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The New York Times captured the junta's response to the Bush move in a simple headline: "Leaders of Coup Gleeful After U.S. Loosens Its Embargo...
...death, back home is rarely easy. Those seeking a better life pose one of the more painful questions for a nation philosophically committed to an open door. While Administration officials acknowledge that the | political climate in Haiti has worsened since the Sept. 30 coup that deposed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, they maintain that most of the boat people are economic migrants whose free-floating fears of persecution are not grounds enough for asylum. Backed by a Jan. 31 Supreme Court decision, little can now deter the Administration's plan to empty the detention camps, save a public outcry...
...Haiti's poorest citizens, the term "quality of life" is a cruel mockery. Since the Sept. 30 military coup that deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and precipitated a hemisphere-wide economic embargo, malnutrition and disease have spread at a rate well beyond the usual disquieting norm. In rural areas, hungry peasant farmers eat the seeds they should be planting. Twenty miles from the capital, immunization programs have been curtailed, a casualty of government efforts to conserve fuel that make refrigeration of vaccines impossible. As a result, children are dying of measles. Yet in the slums, people do not complain...
...file out to the driveway, then ordered to lie face down on the pavement and surrender their weapons. "One of the policemen began to kick us as we lay there," he says. "I received a kick in the face, just under the eye." Theodore's bodyguard and friend, Yves Jean-Pierre, was killed by gunfire. "I didn't see Yves shot," he says, "but others did." One of the policemen, he continued, "suggested they finish us with a grenade." Just in time, uniformed police ordered the plainclothesmen to put their weapons on safety...