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...priest who now lives with his wife and two daughters in South Africa amid allegations of stealing millions from Haiti's treasury and telephone company. (Aristide's lawyers deny the charges.) Aristide had been restored in 1994 after the intervention of 20,000 U.S. soldiers; his close associate Ren Pr??val, a former President who served between the two terms of Aristide, is the front runner in the current race. Washington continues to exert influence, if in a less militant way. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Haiti last fall to nudge elections forward. They have been postponed at least...
...will roll out a new cell-phone service that summarizes literary classics in ultra-terse text messages. The firm aims to "fillet" pertinent plot points and provide another important study aid by highlighting key quotes. Who's helping the company distill the works of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare into pr??cis such as the one below of Romeo and Juliet? John Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction. The University College London professor says text messaging's "educational opportunities are immense." Perhaps, assuming such bite-size lessons will help translate that "rdng...
...behind the scenes. "In the first six months I'll have 30% of the power," Cerezo told TIME last month. "In the first two years I'll have 50%, and I'll never have more than 70% of the power during my five-year term." Says Guatemala City Archbishop Pr??spero Penados del Barrio: "Whoever becomes President is going to have to move with great caution. You cannot have a dialogue with the armed forces...
With more elusive personalities like cellist Jacqueline du Pr??, whose career was cut short by multiple sclerosis in 1973, when she was 28, and Carlos Kleiber, the notoriously reclusive conductor who died last year, the interviews and documentaries that usually make up the bonus material on DVDs are scarce if not nonexistent. The producers are reduced to offering such extras as "photo galleries." No matter; the releases sell anyway. The performers' names and mystique are enough. Almost two decades after Du Pr??'s death in 1987, a DVD titled Jacqueline du Pr?? in Portraitis one of the best-selling offerings...
...Pr??te pour le Voyage,” sickly, brown, coiled intestines and a heart protrude from a woman’s electric blue dress, mixing anatomical correctness and figurative meaning...