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Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary...
...case is evidence that that's happening." But French voters aren't letting their guards down just yet. Political reaction to the Juppé verdict ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even before Juppé decided to appeal. ump Minister Delegate for Schools Xavier Darcos condemned the ruling as "a political death sentence"; Eric Raoult, vice president of the ump parliamentary group, called it "disproportionate, hypocritical and cynical." Then...
...policemen were killed in street fighting as police special forces swept into Gonaives, Haiti 's fourth-largest city, in an effort to wrest control from rebels who seized it Thursday. An armed opposition group staged a jailbreak - in which at least 10 people died - as violent protests against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continued. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... As the Crow Doesn't Fly Animal behaviorists at Oxford University have discovered that homing pigeons' navigational techniques are a lot like humans'. Using satellite tracking devices, the scientists found that, rather than relying on their inner solar compass, the birds prefer...
...Glory of France Can France keep its businesses French? The government's attempt to create a national champion by engineering a 346 billion merger between drug firms Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis could end up backfiring. Hostile takeovers are rare and frowned upon in France, so Sanofi CEO Jean-François Dehecq's unsolicited offer for Franco-German Aventis last week raised eyebrows. Except in government: Finance Minister Francis Mer openly endorses the takeover, while a source close to the deal says President Jacques Chirac, an old friend of Dehecq's, personally called Liliane Bettencourt, the biggest shareholder...
...bring about regime change by armed force in Iraq. But last week, the mood was as sweet and satisfying as a Schweizerdeutsch dessert - mit Schlag. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft arrived in Davos weighed down with olive branches, while European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet praised American optimism, and Iranian academic Mahmood Sariolghalam said that Iraq was poised to become a symbol of success in the Middle East...