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...proposal for sharper U.N. action still sets no date for Aristide's return and provides no real muscle to remove a junta whose members are getting rich smuggling in fuel and food from the Dominican Republic, in defiance of the existing U.N. ban and a voluntary OAS trade embargo. Senator Christopher Dodd, an advocate of tougher sanctions who recently returned from a trip to . Haiti, believes new U.N. measures will not be enough. With dissatisfaction over Clinton's Haiti policy mounting in Congress, a senior Administration official admitted that no option, not even military intervention, was being ruled...
...from a deposed rival family. To get her way, she bullies servants and promises to marry the prince's unworldly guardians -- an austere philosopher who spots her true gender and his matronly sister, who doesn't. The production is vividly pretty. What makes it work, though, is its edge, sharper than Shakespeare's in similar plots -- especially when the bamboozled guardians realize they have been cast aside and stare with shame and despair into a slowly fading light...
...case, it is difficult to see much the Administration could do quickly to overcome the fundamental trends -- primarily the economy's wrenching readjustment to sharper foreign competition -- that are making the recovery so lopsided. Some clues to just how lopsided...
...There are fewer sharper edges," Raines says."There is all this interaction...
...shuffles, flicks and flips, he expounds fondly on the achievements of George Devol, a 19th century sharper and headbutter, and warmly evokes the memory of his two contemporary masters Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, both now deceased, who shared their secrets with their gifted acolyte. Photos of Vernon and Miller can be seen on the bookcase of the fin-de-siecle gaming room that serves as the show's sole set, and a carte de visite featuring a picture of the 19th century illusionist Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser actually shows up in a prop for one of the show's loveliest...