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Since soldiers overthrew Haiti's first freely elected President five months ago, restoring a functioning democracy has not proved easy. Last week, in an attempt to lift the crippling economic embargo imposed on the military-backed government by the Organization of American States, top politicians of the hemisphere's poorest country struck a complex deal at OAS headquarters in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Fragile as An Eggshell | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Freshman Jennifer Kearney gave the Crimson a lift, finishing second in the mile at the H-Y-P's with a time...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Thinclads Limp Into Heptagonal Championships | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

Life up your heads, O ye gates; and be lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in. Maybe it's just me, but that sounds a lot like the inscription above the Harvard Yard gates near the Square. Handel has paved the way for Berry to move his office out of the Union basement and into the Yard. Mass Hall had better watch out. But there's more. Look at one of Handel's descriptions of the Messiah...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Hallelujah, He's for Real ! | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...jail by fighting again and donating his take to Indiana rape centers. This scenario will not unfold, even if Tyson could find an opponent (Holyfield, says his promoter, Dan Duva, will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...standards of human character has been the ideal for more than two centuries. When the first President was 15 years old, he compiled for himself 102 "Rules of Civility," which he put in his notebook. Among them: "Shake not the head, feet or legs, roll not the eye, lift not one eyebrow higher than the other; wry not the mouth." Bush -- and his rivals -- should read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Time for Some Decorum | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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