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...clear that the board and shareholders were dissatisfied with the company's performance. An interim chief, Max Dietrich Kley, now runs the company. A revolt by French shareholders led to the ousting of Eurotunnel's chief executive, Richard Shirrefs, and its board. Former travel executive Jacques Maillot leads the motley band of characters trying to keep Eurotunnel, an absolute money pit, out of bankruptcy...
...perversely high standards, a place with a barbarous history. During Saddam Hussein's cruel regime, torture, humiliation and random murder were standard fare within its walls. That was all supposed to have changed when coalition forces took over last year and began filling the jail with captives from the motley Iraqi resistance. But it seems that echoes of those unsavory traditions have persisted...
Philippe's motley force numbered only a few hundred soldiers. But when the rebels moved to arrest Aristide's Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune, the Americans had had enough. U.S. armored military vehicles surrounded Neptune's office, and as Philippe supporters massed at the gate, annoyed U.S. officials told them sarcastically, "Sorry, we're closed." Afterward, U.S. military commanders called Philippe in and warned that if he didn't disarm he would "be dealt with the same as anyone who gives us hostile interference out there," says a U.S. official. Philippe publicly agreed, though days later his insurgents were still armed...
...there is reason to suspect that his government has violated civil liberties and perhaps engaged in some minor corruption. But these oft-voiced criticisms miss the point. Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected president, and the U.S. is now complicit in his overthrow by a motley rebel force led by documented human rights abusers...
What Jones wanted for Feels like Home was a shot at the life she signed up for originally. Except for an adolescent flirtation with heavy metal--"I loved Motley Crue for a period of about two years," she says--Jones grew up dreaming of being a jazz singer. (Her dedication was such that at the University of North Texas, she recalls taking just two classes outside the jazz-studies major--astronomy and sex ed--and, she says, "I may have dropped both of them.") It wasn't just jazz music that hooked her but also her imagined sense...