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Chaos and violence descended upon Haiti in fall 1991, when a military coup toppled the fledgling elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide supporters fled the island to escape persecution by the new regime. A pregnant Pascal was beaten??leading to a miscarriage—and burned with cigarettes before she decided to leave her husband, two children, and mother behind in search of safety. Sailing northward on dangerous makeshift rafts, refugees were rounded up by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...that either one was shut out or badly beaten??it was just that neither one had the chance to play his match to competion...
After Holy Cross kicked off out of bounds, Harvard faced first-and-10 on its own 35. Fitzpatrick went to Edwards, but underthrew him. Edwards came back—past the defenders he had already beaten??caught the ball over a pair of defensive backs, spun through them and cut right. While crossing the field, Edwards absorbed a hard hit from Holy Cross cornerback Darran Davis but stayed on his feet and fought his way out of a tangle of purple jerseys before finally being brought down after a 42-yard gain...
This was not the same Harvard team that was beaten in its three previous games. And I use the word “beaten?? because there’s a difference between losing and being beaten. You can lose and not be beaten: sometimes you just don’t catch the breaks...
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