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That afternoon, following an airport run to greet returning players, he meets with a distraught girl. Huddled in the Olds' front seat, she tells a sad tale. Her unstable mother has threatened her with a knife. She's afraid to go home, reluctant to call the police. A struggling student, she lacks money for needed books. And she'd like to play for Upward Bound, but fears the humiliation of failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upward Bound Making a Fast Break Out of the Ghetto | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Sudduth and Graham have told reporters thatMorris called Aiken labs twice shortly after thevirus appeared: first to announce that the rogueprogram was on its way, and two hours later,distraught, to ask Sudduth to broadcast anationwide computer message that the virus wasspreading out of control. In the second call,Morris gave Sudduth a solution to the program andasked him to broadcast it as well...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: `Virus' Jury to Hear Key Accounts of Harvard Link | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...recent months. In June alone the embassy issued 2,000 refugee visas, more than the total for all 1987. Many Armenians who were planning to leave the U.S.S.R. in a few weeks risk having their Soviet exit visas expire before the U.S. again opens its doors. Said a distraught emigrant: "We moved out of our apartments and quit our jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Refugees Need Not Apply | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...would rather you not talk to the players. After the way they played, I can't imagine that they'd have anything intelligent to say"--a distraught Penn, women's basketball Coach Marianne Stanley after her squad lost a 63-58 game to Brown...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Greene Lives a Diving Dream | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

Allegations surfaced last week that the Namphy government was far more interested in disciplining the vigilante groups than in curbing the thugs. A distraught 19-year-old Haitian woman told the San Francisco Examiner that one day before the election soldiers swept Carrefour-Feuilles, a hillside slum south of the capital, rounding up alleged vigilantes. At the Fort Dimanche military prison, she charged, men in uniform shot and bayoneted to death 46 of her cellmates. The woman claimed that only she and two other women were spared. Namphy's government denied the report, but human-rights groups are urging Amnesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Blood in the Ballot Box | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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