Word: bertrand
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...year after the forced departure of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti may be in danger of becoming a “failed state,” according to a report released on Monday by the Clinical Advocacy Project, a division of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School...
...Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair of the city, which ends with Mehta's quietly following Mother Teresa as she walks through a lepers' colony. At their best, his articles and essays throb with unforgettable details?how the English philosopher Bertrand Russell spoke with exaggerated e's, how Gandhi was extremely eager to know more about Sigmund Freud?that leave the reader with a vivid sense of Mehta's personality, and with his gifts of curiosity, sympathy and intellect. Above all, it is his essays, not his memoirs, that testify...
...Finally, the papers are hampered by rigid and expensive union contracts; a proposal to switch the afternoon Le Monde to the morning failed in part because the printers' union didn't want to work nights. "France's daily press has reached the end of the subsidized economy," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum, an association of newsroom executives. "Now reality sets in, and the only possibility is to sell to big capitalists...
...victory would reinforce Hollande's bona fides as leader. With the party's renewed energy has come revived competition for the Socialist candidacy in the 2007 presidential race. Some of Hollande's colleagues in the yes camp - including Strauss-Kahn, former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë - hanker after the presidency, too. But Laurent Fabius, a former Prime Minister under François Mitterrand in the mid-'80s, is spearheading the no campaign as part of his own presidential bid. He argues that the constitution favors unfettered free markets at the expense of social policy, public...
DIED. GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection; in Cuba. Although the lifelong communist was an early ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's, standing by the former Haitian President during his 1991 ouster and his 1994 return to power, the two had a falling out in 1997, when Pierre-Charles accused Aristide of betraying the poor and drifting toward dictatorship. In 2001 Aristide backers burned down the home of Pierre-Charles, who continued to stage protests until the Haitian President finally left the country last February...