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...question, there's a huge disparity there, and it's perhaps the biggest personal challenge I have--I've gotta want to come to play every night," he says. "Let's be blunt: over the past two years, in the games that haven't gotten the hype or the publicity, I have a history of not coming to play...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Junior Goalie Tripp Tracy: It's His Time to Shine | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...believe in being blunt, even though sometimes that can get you in trouble," he says "Criticizing yourself and realizing that you sometimes do things wrong is one of the keys to becoming a better player"--and a better person, he might...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Junior Goalie Tripp Tracy: It's His Time to Shine | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...highest dropout rates and the lowest test scores in the state. Fewer than half the city's ninth- graders graduate four years later; 95% of fourth-graders need remedial help. Acting superintendent Eddie Davis, whose two children attend Hartford schools, is blunt about the crisis. "Our performance is down, our costs are up," he says. "Our 2,000-odd teachers make on average $52,000 and rank in the top five in the state in terms of salaries. Yet we rank 112th out of 169 towns in terms of direct expenditures on instructional materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools for Profit | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

President Clinton has been uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Can Haiti Be Saved? | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

With these blunt words President Clinton served warning on Haiti's military rulers to leave the country peacefully, or else a U.S.-led invasion would commence shortly. But the following day, perhaps to muffle strong congressional criticism, he eased up a bit and announced that former President Jimmy Carter would lead a high-level delegation to Haiti for one last try at getting the junta to step down. The 11th-hour mission, which also includes former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, left Saturday amid rumors that Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week September 11-17 | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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