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...Even his friends await Aristide's homecoming with mixed emotions. Aristide took a dim view of U.S. interference in the hemisphere: many of his sermons attacked the U.S. government?though never, as he liked to point out, "the American people." After hearing so much from him about the evils of U.S. policy, it is hard for his disciples to understand why he would agree to return hand in hand with the U.S. military ... Despite the difficulties ahead, the returning President firmly believes he can help democracy take root in Haiti. "Not one minute of this has been easy," he says...
...counselors still await their first business. On average, Room 13 receives two to four pieces of business every night (including both phone calls and drop-ins), although Stephanopoulos warns that there is “no typical night.” People who use Room 13 have the option of talking to one of the counselors or both at the same time. “Some people feel more comfortable on the phone because it’s more anonymous,” Fletcher says. “I prefer having a drop-in. It’s comforting...
Love songs always get me. I still await the moment when sparks fly and Mr. Right softly croons in my ear Elvis’ buttery words: “I can’t help falling in love with you.” Fifty years later, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll still seems to have it right: Science can only go so far in explaining love’s capriciousness and involuntary nature...
...last night’s council meeting, the list of student organizations that were receiving grants under the spring grants package did not include AACF, which must await a decision from a council policy committee...
...when she went on calls with her father into the bush, where people would gather before sunrise to await them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where...