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From the sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than...
...leaders have not found a way to keep meat in the grocery stores or underwear in the department stores. Nor have they loosened the reins of repression during the past 16 years. At the same time, however, material conditions are easier, and life has settled into a consistent, predictable norm that avoids the extremes of Khrushchev's erratic liberalization and Stalin's relentless terror. For many Soviets, that is reassuring, especially against the backdrop of their country's new prestige and power abroad...
Freshman wonder Brendan Meagher interrupted the Blue Jays at 9:52 when he took a Norm Forbush pass on the left side, pulled in his stick to avoid the check, and then bounced one past All-American goalie Mike Federica. Meagher led the Crimson with four markers...
Refusing to falter for more than a second, the Crimson recovered to launch a five-goal rally of its own. Co-captain Peter Predun led the drive with a hat trick, while Meagher and attackman Norm Forbush each added...
After allowing the Minutemen to jump out to a 2-0 lead, Harvard started the contest rolling its way at 11:42 in the opening quarter. Attackman Norm Forbush took a pass from co-captain Dave Wigglesworth and went to the cage for the fastbreak goal...