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...Miserables is more sophisticated than the feelings it evokes, and infinitely more compelling than you can imagine a film derived from such a familiar source might be (there have been at least seven movie adaptations of it, not to mention an unstoppable stage musical). Lelouch understands that Jean Valjean and his friends, foes and milieu have long since permeated our consciousness, that you can't just uproot them, plunk them down unchanged in modern times and expect anyone to see the result as more than a gimmick...
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, seeming almost taken by surprise as the vote neared, finally made a dramatic unity speech on Friday. But it may be too little, too late. The spectacle of the Canadian people coming from all over the continent to plead with Quebec to stay in the union can be seen as a referendum on Chretien's failed leadership on one of his most fundamental responsibilities: preserving the nation. "Quebec is tired of being treated as if it was not to be taken seriously, as if it would never leave, no matter what," says TIME International editor...
...women's division, Lionel's Ola A. Mobolade took first place in 10:37, with Jean W. Galbraith of Matthews South (11:00) and Vi 'I. Nguyen of Hurlbut (11:32) placing second and third, respectively...
BLAME IT ALL ON JEAN-JACQUES Rousseau, whose Confessions shocked 18th century France with its author's admissions of sexual masochism and other private deviancies. The great philosopher didn't just help start the French Revolution with his writings; he ushered in a publishing genre--the confessional memoir. More than 200 years later the literary form is thriving. Not just the celebrity memoir in which show-biz and sports icons "tell all" about the pain behind the fame. More recently has come a flood of what might be called just-plain-folks memoirs--intensely personal yet highly literary accounts...
...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...