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...throng of frustrated Harvard students fought tooth and nail for a Yale College flag. A Yale junior leaned over the side of a Soldier field wall, unzipped his fly and sent a streaming, triumphant message to the cement 20 feet below. A tailgating Harvard graduate poured himself a half-full glass of champagne, sarcastically toasted seven more losing seasons and then downed the load in one gulp...
Then there are the cobblestone streets. Yard walking entails walking freely on the grass or on the nicely even cement. Living in Kirkland has taught me the value of each step. And of each shoe. My clogs have just about had it with the cobblestone. The heels are broken and the front tips are scraped from the numerous times I have tripped on one of the big crevices...
...from venting its wrath on several men suspected of throwing the bomb, the crowd turned on the warehouse itself. And in a sample of what rich Haitians have predicted could engulf the entire country, the throng stripped the building bare. They took everything: steel drums, bags of cement, iron bars, even coils of wire -- but this time no Americans intervened...
...troops -- down from 338,000 in 1990 -- will leave this month. Ordered by Major General Matvei Burlakov, commander of the Russian forces in Germany, "to take everything with them," the soldiers stripped their military installations of window frames, toilet fixtures, doorknobs and wiring. After all, Burlakov said, even a cement pole "can be traded in Russia for five pigs...
While sanctions are hurting the poor, who survive on beans and rice, shops in Port-au-Prince were well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...