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Camp d'Application is the Haitian army's training center, but its far greater importance is as the base for the heavy weapons. The guns and armored vehicles stored there have for years been the military's coupmaking tools, equipment that can surround administrative buildings and oust governments. Three years ago, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, then an unknown police major, seized control of the heavy weapons and rolled into the capital to overthrow Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected President. The hardware is now under guard inside the U.S. base at the airport...
...network executives talk about a war like tourists shooting a cock-fight with their Camcorders. It's just another consumer product, but this time it's new and improved, with Dolby Surround-Sound and high-definition pictures that allow you to feel like you're there! According to the Times, they have even promised that "the invasion scenes would not resemble the opening moments of the American landing in Somalia...
...accomplish this, Aristide appealed to his supporters to surround the court building, which they did, not-so-subtly threatening to lynch the justices if they did not comply. Fearing for their lives, they...
...neurologist Roseman, the same thing is true. With 11 offices in four states, he is perpetually on the go. "I'm at rest in motion," says the doctor. "I surround myself with partners who provide the structure. My practice allows me to be creative." Roseman has accountants to do the bookkeeping. He starts his day at 6:30 with a hike and doesn't slow down until midnight. "Thank God for my add," he says. But, he admits, "had I listened to all the negative things that people said when I was growing up, I'd probably be digging ditches...
...Yale undergraduates might even feel safe walking the two blocks to Wawa--New Haven's equivalent of Store 24--to buy a Coke a night. One day, all of the huge iron fences which surround "Fortress Yale" might not be locked so tightly...