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...atmosphere" is either a fool or an apologist for Harrison. Despite some key losses, coach Bill Cleary put together an extraordinary hockey team in the Harvard atmosphere as have crew coaches Harry Parker and Steve Gladstone. If the new coach can build some semblance of a winner, fans will flock to the IAB and the program will flourish...
...slums are swelling as peasants flock to the cities in search of the $1-a-day wage required by Haitian law. Many of the jobs they find are in small assembly plants, which contract with foreign firms for the cheap labor of Haitian workers. In one plant, 3.7 million Rawlings baseballs are stitched together every year for export to the U.S. Explains Owner Jules Tomar: "Baseball sewing is a nonexistent art in the U.S." But even these jobs are few and far between; at least one-third of the Haitian population is unemployed...
...room, certainly, for fresh faces and fresh views on the talk shows, which have settled into a deep rut of predictability, with the same authors selling the same books and the same actors shilling for the same movies. In selecting guests, Paar has announced a policy of "avoid the flock." Along with the not-so-golden oldies, his first week offered a new and funny comic, Kelly Monteith, and a remarkable sleeper in the person of Michael Meyers, a young doctor and sometime actor with an endless supply of hospital horror stories...
...civilization; it was decided that if in 15 days they had not been heard from, two more members would go to seek help. On the seventh day, however, using the plane's compass, Canessa and Parrado managed to reach the Azufre River and sighted a shepherd and his flock. It was five days before Christmas...
...Western Church to the here-and-now, with its legal prescriptions as to what Catholics must do to be saved, has had its value. In many cases, it left American cardinals and bishops and priests free to deal with the powers that be on behalf of their immigrant flock. It led many clerics to direct involvement with labor unless and also resulted in a Catholic school system which allowed immigration to be socialized into the American Way with some of their traditions and pride intact...