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With the growth of the Head into a national event over the past few years, the regatta's planning committee has contracted with the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to control crowds and handle grounds maintenance at the event, regatta committee director John F. Romain said...
...assistance the MDC has provided "does notcome cheaply," Romain said. The Regatta Committeeplans to pay the MDC $65,000 to $70,000 for itshelp during the Head this year
...Reni at the end of the catalog charts his fall. You see the first puff of feathers detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there...
...church, St. Jean Bosco, three Sundays ago. The attack, which left 13 dead and 77 injured, was staged by the Tonton Macoutes, the vicious thugs who terrorized Haiti under the Duvaliers. Under Lieut. General Henri Namphy, leader of the just ousted regime, and particularly Port-au-Prince mayor Franck Romain, the Macoutes have enjoyed a comeback...
...mutiny spread and crowds plundered his house last week, Romain sought refuge inside the embassy of the Dominican Republic. Others were not so lucky. Some Macoutes were stoned to death. Several who participated in the murder last year of former presidential candidate Yves Volel were seized by an enraged crowd, dragged to the St. Jean Bosco Church, savagely beaten, then set on fire. At least twelve Macoutes last week fell victim to the selective new dechoukage. Bowing to pressures from the junior officers, Haiti's new, self- declared President, Brigadier General Prosper Avril, replaced all the top military commanders...