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Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Not President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had already resigned on Feb. 29 and flown to asylum in Africa. Now the headache was Guy Philippe, whose rebel army had forced Aristide out--and whose triumphant entry into the capital, Port-au-Prince, lavishly upstaged the simultaneous arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines. After sweeping the city of Aristide's armed gangs, the baby-faced Philippe, 36, declared himself Haiti's new "commander in chief," despite the fact that Haiti...
...only a small excerpt from a massive new book, Me I, by Oneself by curator Pascal Bonafoux and editor-publisher Diane de Selliers, due out this month. While affinities are not readily apparent between the 19th century master draftsman Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the feisty 20th century rebel Pablo Picasso, the two artists had much in common. Picasso was a lifelong admirer of Ingres, and he had a post-Cubist "Ingres period" (1915-1925) when he returned to figurative painting. He also recognized in Ingres a fellow revolutionary, albeit a more subtle one. Comparing more than 110 paintings...
...Philippe hardly seemed like a man about to order a bloodbath. Lounging poolside last week with his rifle-toting soldiers at a hotel above Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, the rebel army leader predicted an easy time overwhelming the capital, Port-au-Prince, which he threatened to attack unless President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned. "We'll take it within days if not hours," he told TIME. Aristide's fall, he insisted, would justify even the carnage his army's offensive would cause the hemisphere's poorest country. "Haiti has to pay something to bring back democracy," he warned...
Before Aristide departed, hundreds of Aristide's own heavily armed thugs, the chimeres (Creole for mythical monsters), had terrorized the city in anticipation of a rebel assault--looting warehouses, hijacking and smashing cars at barricades of burning tires, even killing people, sometimes execution-style, for reasons as slight as not flashing five fingers to signal the five full years of Aristide's current presidency. One ski-masked crew, blaring a police siren from a pickup, accosted TIME journalists at gunpoint, shouting "Not even the rats move here without our permission!" Because Haiti's police force is a threadbare farce...
...paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...