Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Haiti's most recent strongman was reminiscent of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's ignominious departure in 1986. On the morning of his 53rd birthday, after seven days of protests and a general strike, Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family were driven to the airport on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince last week, placed aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter and flown into refuge in the U.S. Thus ended the turbulent 18-month rule of Haiti's fourth leader in four years...
Alexander, author of a 1983 book on Jean Harris and the murder of diet doctor Herman Tarnower, carefully details the lives of the players: Myerson's lover Andy Capasso and his estranged wife Nancy; Judge Hortense Gabel, who presided over the Capasso divorce; and Sukhreet, the judge's troubled daughter. Bess is a towering "glamazon" who dazzled almost everyone she met; Hortense Gabel is a stocky housing lawyer with Coke-bottle glasses and sensible shoes. Yet Alexander pairs them as spiritual twins. Both had climbed out of the Bronx through brains, hard work and chutzpah. And both hated looking back...
...months to come. Capriati, for anyone who missed the biggest media hoopla since the Donald Trump divorce scandal, is a sturdily built 5-ft. 6 1/2-in. 13-year-old with nerve, force and a powerful backhand -- plus a business manager, a press agent and a sometime coach named Billie Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator Bud Collins, "the best American player since Billie Jean." That accolade puts her above the likes of Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin and Capriati's friend and role model, Chris Evert, the sport's winningest player...
...Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Breena Clarke, Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Eileen Harkin, Suzanne W. Marcou, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley
...Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Breena Clarke, Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Eileen Harkin, Suzanne W. Marcou, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley