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Residents of Cambridge's poorest and most racially diverse neighborhood have been struggling for several years to get concrete plans for the facility. Although Area Four is the city's most densely populated neighborhood for children, it does not have a teen center, but operates drop-in programs at local elementary schools...
...have been their poorest performance of the season, but Harvard still had a shot to come away with the victory down the stretch. With 20 seconds remaining, the score was tied, 74-74. The Crimson failed to convert on its next two possesions and was forced to foul Central Connecticut, but with two seconds left on the clock, Harvard was still in it. With her team trailing by two points and the Blue Devils shooting one-and-one, Delaney Smith called timeout...
Already the world's poorest country, Ethiopia faces famine again. In the northern provinces of Tigre and Eritrea, drought has cut crop yields 85%. The U.N. estimates that 4 million people are in danger of starving and will need emergency food aid. An international relief effort is at work, but in the civil war between the rigidly Marxist government of President Mengistu Haile Mariam and rebels from Tigre and Eritrea, denial of food is a key weapon for both sides. The main relief agencies would like to bring supplies to the insurgents across the Sudanese border instead of via government...
...last stipulation, also called the Difference Principle, insists that the situation of the poorest members of society be considered when creating a system of justice. It allows inequality of wealth and income, but only if the prosperity of the top can be harnessed to contribute to the well-being of the bottom...
...Sheraton siege brought the U.S. the closest it has ever been to exchanging fire with the Salvadoran guerrillas. It occurred just as the rebels' ten-day-old offensive, which had been fought in some of the capital's poorest neighborhoods, Soyapango, Cuidad Delgado and Mejicanos, seemed to be winding down. In the early hours of Sunday morning, hundreds of guerrillas were streaming out of Mejicanos' streets, badly battered by days of intensive government firepower. Where the rebels went, or how they managed to elude the government troops, no one seemed to know. But two days later, they re-emerged from...