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...Born in Lyon in 1924, Jarre was no child prodigy; he was in his late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for modern readings of classical plays. In 1951, Georges Franju, a director of spare, uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score his film essay on wounded veterans, the 1951 Hôtel des Invalides. In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head...
Litt, 46, is in fighting trim. In November he won a hard-fought case against former technology investor (and longtime opera fan) Alberto Vilar, who was convicted of stealing his investors' money. The trial took nine weeks, which is long for a fraud case. "He is very much a no-nonsense prosecutor who does the right thing without excess flash or showmanship," says Colton, who represented Gary Tanaka, Vilar's partner, who was also found guilty in the case...
...Litt, the victims of these sorts of frauds are real people with real families and real retirement savings that don't exist anymore," says Ivan Fisher, a defense attorney in the Vilar case. "For some prosecutors these are just litigations. That's not the case with Litt...
...shouted. When Eddie Gonzalez, 40, saw the agents moving in, he jumped over the barricade and shouted, "What the hell are you doing?" The officers immediately began spraying a green-colored pepper spray from canisters held at their waists and pushed him down to the ground. Student Fausto Vilar, 18, was hit with the butt of a rifle as he jumped over the bars. "They grabbed me and an older man behind me and pushed us down to the pavement. I couldn't breathe or see. I had to go to a house and spray a water hose...
...ruin their nation by harassing President Clinton? People are trying to dig up anything they can to destroy him. But he is only human, capable of committing mistakes. Don't condemn him. Instead, try to see the good he has done. Americans are lucky to have him. STELLA VILAR DE ASIS Muscat, Oman...