Word: roussell
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...into a kind of professional family, constantly praising them for their skills and loyalty. He reveres the people who have taken the public journey with him through his tours at the United Nations, China, the CIA and the White House. Retired Marine General P.X. Kelly, former press aide Peter Roussel, former domestic-policy chief Roger Porter and others are in his phone network, slipping into the Bush cantonments in Texas and Maine for fishing, tennis and camaraderie...
...convey either the scientific significance or the social controversy surrounding the U.S. clinical trials of the so-called abortion pill. Although an estimated 150,000 women in Europe have used mifepristone (known there by its brand name, RU 486), the threat of consumer boycotts by antiabortion organizations discouraged Roussel Uclaf, the drug's European manufacturer, from marketing the pills in America. Instead, the company eventually agreed to let the Population Council, a nonprofit group, sponsor clinical trials of mifepristone in the U.S. Last month tests began at some of the 12 sites around the country, five of them Planned Parenthood...
...situation in the Flyers' organi- zation was also attractive: although Israelexpects to be assigned to Hershey of the AmericanHockey League (the Flyers' top farm club), heknows that Dominic Roussel and Tommy Soderstromdidn't get the job done as Philadelphia failed tomake the playoffs again this past season...
There was also Surrealism, which for many Catholic kids with artistic ambitions was the door out of orthodoxy. Kelley's work is larded with references to early eccentrics from the Surrealist pantheon, like the suicidal dandy Jacques Vache and the writers Raymond Roussel and the Comte de Lautreamont. On the other hand, his drawing is almost entirely derived from comic strips. Both confessional and obscure (why else would the museum have served up no fewer than 17 catalog essays to explicate it?), his work can nevertheless pack a flailing, provincial-surreal wallop -- now and then...
Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performs works by Roussel, Britten and Ravel on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 5 at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave. Call 266-1492 for more information...