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Haiti's crisis last week centered on a family that has used terror and corruption for 28 years to grow wealthy by imposing its will on the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. For the first time in Baby Doc's reign, spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country brought misery-ridden Haiti close to open revolt. Rioters controlled many parts of the countryside, and the government was firmly in control of only the capital...
Haiti, with about 6 million inhabitants, is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere...
...Divinity School, with a $30 million endowment and 80 percent of its students on financial aid, is also the poorest of Harvard's schools. Thiemann will have to pick up fundraising where his predecessor Rupp left off, according to John Strugnell, Lamont Professor of Divinity...
Greenlief responded that "much of our aid is going to the poorest of countries, regardless of their policy situation." However, citing Uganda as one country where American assistance has not been extremely productive, Greenlief said a country must be responsive to help for change to come about...
...marked the second straight year without a victory for Columbia, whose 0-10 record was the poorest by an Ivy League football team since the Ivy colleges began playing in 1869. The Lion losing streak stretched to 21 games, the longest among National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA teams...