Word: jeaned
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...Fugees' name is short for "refugees": two of the members, Wyclef Jean and Prakazrel Michel, have family roots in Haiti; the third, Lauryn Hill, is a native of New Jersey but considers herself "Haitian by association." The band's winning new album The Score draws liberally from the music of both the Caribbean (there's a rousing cover of Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry) and urban America (a woozy hip-hop remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Receiving the presidential sash from predecessor Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Belgian-educated agronomist and former Haitian Prime Minister Rene Preval completed Haiti's first peaceful exchange of democratic power since it broke from France in 1804. Because Preval has little independent political support within the country, he is nagged by the notion that he is warming the presidential chair for a glorious return four years from now by Aristide, who may not succeed himself under Haiti's constitution, but can run again later. The problems of the western hemisphere's poorest nation will not wait...
Those who remain report being attacked from all sides. Four months ago, Jean Ndabagendeje, 39, escaped from his mainly Hutu village after the army stormed into the area and ordered everyone to leave. But when he sought refuge with some 1,500 other Hutu near a Tutsi military encampment in Bubanza town, he was again attacked, this time by machete-wielding Hutu, who accused Ndabagendeje of betraying the Hutu cause...
BALTHAZAR GETTY has just turned 21. He doesn't want to talk about whether that means he comes into big money from the estate of his as-rich-as-he-was-weird great-granddad Jean Paul Getty. But he has scored something: his first adult role. Having fully explored the shipwrecked-child genre in his first movie, Lord of the Flies, and the newly opened White Squall, Getty's the romantic lead in Lost Highway, the David Lynch movie being filmed in Death Valley. "It's a twisted love story between me and Patricia Arquette," says Getty...
When it premiered in France in the 1950s, Jean Genet's The Maids must have been a shock. The play, based on the true story of two sisters who murdered their employer in the early 1930s, blends two kinds of provocation: it draws the audience into the violent, deranged fantasy world of the maids, and at the same time presents their madness as a product of class exploitation. Genet's original audience was being spooked and indicted at the same time...