It said the event would contrast beauty, femininity and fashion with a “concrete wall of insult, ugliness and humiliation”.Sybil Goldfiner, the firm’s CEO, said: “Every time there is a terror attack we soon go back to life as normal We want to emphasise those paradoxes.”. They are the vanguard of up to 2,000 troops who will serve in an international force of 5,000 authorised by the UN Security Council. Thousands cheered the two rebel leaders of the so-called National Liberation Army, Guy Philippe and Louis Jodel Chamblain.Haiti’s interim leader, Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre, has put together a transition team of politicians with a view to forming a government of national unity.. In Port-au-Prince, there were rumours Mr Aristide had been seen in handcuffs at the airport after being arrested by agents of the Drugs Enforcement Administration President Bush’s spokesman dismissed the allegations “Conspiracy theories do nothing to help the Haitian people. We took steps to protect Mr Aristide and his family so they would not be harmed as they departed Haiti.” Buoyed by the arrival of US Marines and French troops, Haitians returned to the streets yesterday and celebrated the flight of their president, who may seek exile in South Africa.Marines secured the airport, but had no plans to patrol the city.

“He asked that I tell the world that it is a coup, that he was abducted by American soldiers and put aboard a plane,” said Randall Robinson of the TransAfrica forum. More than 150 US Marines flew into the deserted Toussaint Louverture international airport in the early hours of Monday on C-17 transports and fanned out in darkness to secure the area. Corporal Lewis Isenberg of the Second Marine Division, based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said: “We were pretty sure we’d meet no resistance. But we were ready for it.”At first light, a batch of French C-160 transports rumbled in from Martinique, disgorging about 100 soldiers of the 33th marines’ regiment, led by Captain Benoit Desjars. He said: “We are here to co-operate with the American and other forces, to prepare for an international peace force to protect the people of this country.”His mission, he said, was open-ended US Marines occupied this Caribbean nation from 1915 to 1934 But the foreigners are not expected to stay long this time.. In the end, Jean-Bertrand Aristide left Haiti the same way he came in 10 years ago: at the pleasure of the United States, under escort from the Marines, with the streets of Port-au-Prince at the mercy of former army officers and paramilitary death squad commanders. Haiti’s deposed president Jean-Bertrand Aristide yesterday accused Washington of staging a coup against him and transporting him to the Central African Republic in conditions he likened to being kidnapped and thrown into jail.
In phone calls to African-American activists, Mr Aristide said he had not resigned, as was initially reported, but was hustled out of the country at gunpoint, under military escort.

It is the first time a presidential campaign has chosen cable channels over the traditional broadcast networks.The bulk of the Bush advertisements, aimed at shoring up his Republican base, will air on the Fox News Network, which is regarded as having a mostly conservative bent.He is also expected to favour sporting networks, in the hope of targeting young, mostly conservative, white male voters.. The President’s campaign has budgeted at least $4.5m (£2.4m) for his first main blitz of television advertisements, all of them targeted on national cable stations, including CNN. “I consider myself in a fight for the nomination, a fight that could well go beyond Tuesday,” he told a Boston television station. “This is a contested race, so I’m fighting in every state and I’m campaigning hard after Super Tuesday.”By the end of the week, however, Mr Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, may be facing fiercer fire from President Bush than from his Democrat rival. Boosting Mr Kerry last night were endorsements from the Baltimore Sun in Maryland and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Sun said the Oval Office was “no place for a novice”.The Plain Dealer said it was backing Mr Kerry because of his “obvious understanding of the world’s complexities and their effects on America”.Mr Kerry played down talk of his wrapping up the nomination today. Far from it.”He made uncharacteristically harsh jabs at the front-runner, arguing that Mr Kerry had voted for bad trade agreements for Americans and that his proposals on issues ranging from health care to education would “drive us deeper and deeper into deficit”.Mr Kerry, a 19-year veteran of Washington, said that the United States needed someone with a “proven ability to stand up and take on tough fights”. In the Sunday debate, Mr Edwards tried to douse talk that he was aiming to become Mr Kerry’s running mate. Recent polls have shown that a Kerry-Edwards ticket could defeat a Bush-Cheney team When asked about that prospect, he said: “Oh no Oh no, no.