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...Haiti A School's Sorrow Several students were injured after a school collapsed in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 12, less than a week after the devastating collapse of a different school building in nearby Pétionville, which killed more than 90 people. Haitian President René Pr??val has blamed poor construction methods and materials for the disasters, amid concerns that similar buildings may also be at risk...
...making a mint could be a struggle. The other big film musicals of this decade--Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray--had casts of mostly young actors. The Mamma Mia! contingent is different, as will now be proved with a pr??cis of the movie's plot (a knockoff of the 1968 comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) and a few actuarial stats...
...free to participate equally, regardless of race or religion or creed, has advanced admirably in the West, while in certain areas of the world homosexuals are still hanged, rape victims stoned, and women forbidden to drive a car or receive an education. It would be a mistake, in this pr??©cis of progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic life in the elegant double helix...
That's a very long way from liberty, equality, fraternity. The spirit of this revolution is embodied most perfectly in the slogan on many placards: CONTRE LA PR??CARITÉ, or "Against Precariousness." The precariousness of being subject to being fired. The precariousness of the untenured life, even if the work is boring and the boss no longer wants you. And ultimately, the precariousness of life itself, any weakening of the government guarantee of safety, conformity, regularity...
DECLARED PRESIDENT. RENE PREVAL, 63, ex-leader of Haiti; by election officials, following allegations of ballot fraud after Pr??val's lead appeared to be dwindling as the vote count wore on; in Port-au-Prince. An agronomist by training, Pr??val is beloved by the country's impoverished majority. He was President from 1996 to 2001 and replaces the interim government installed after the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...