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...said he was the local commander explained when asked why none of them wore uniforms. "Look -- they throw stones at us," he said, motioning for another man to come out from the back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks on the corrugated zinc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: In The Midst of Trouble | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Turning up the heat on them is probably a worthwhile endeavour, but the ultimate solution is what it has always been: throw the government out. The U.S. should tighten the noose that has been put so gently around Cedras' neck. On October 15, Cedras and his cronies should be placed on the first plane out. Their continued presence in the country will ensure that the sporadic violence and instability evident in the past weeks will continue...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Tighten the Noose on Haiti's Leaders | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...researchers found very few bones from below the neck, and those they found were in fragments; chew marks on the bones show that the hominids' carcasses were ravaged by carnivores. That makes it hard for anyone to be sure what these creatures looked like and how they walked. The fossils suggest that at least some members of the ramidus clan were about 4 ft. tall, but that doesn't establish what the range in height was. In some African apes, males are considerably bigger than females, as they were in Lucy's species as well. Says White: "We do know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Less Missing Link | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...have wasted money and it is really a [expletive deleted] hassle to get it back." Making it difficult to obtain the refund of a hidden tax is certainly not in the true spirit of what student government should be doing. "The current refund system is a pain in the neck," says Mark C. Alonge '96. "They make you write a letter and then never get back...

Author: By Evan Pearce, | Title: Circumventing Bureaucracy | 9/28/1994 | See Source »

Anthony Riccio's neck had markings which could not have been caused by the fall, according to the coroner's report...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, | Title: Brown Student Dies in Moscow | 9/27/1994 | See Source »

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