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...poorest country in the Western Hemisphere has a booming fast-cash industry: kidnapping. Ralph Charles knows this firsthand. In November he was held for two days in the slum of Cité Soleil, a square mile crammed with 200,000 people and unmanageable crime outside Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. Charles, the owner of a soccer team, says his kidnappers never bothered with disguise. "I'm a big guy with a bad temper, but I kept my cool. They had guns bigger than me. They have lots of them," he says. The ring has hundreds of collaborators, including teenagers...
...mistress who meant most to him since 1963--with intensity almost like a second family even though she lived in Los Angeles--a married alumna of Fisk, of dignified bearing like Coretta, but different. The result was painful disaster. On hearing the news, Juanita Abernathy, SCLC co-founder Ralph Abernathy's wife, exploded with the fury of a trusted second that King had picked Coretta's most vulnerable moment, just as she recovered from her hysterectomy, to ambush her sanctuary of willful, silent discretion. If he was truly desperate to be honest, she said, King should purge himself privately...
This time King stood seething. "Ralph, give me my car keys," he said quietly. Abernathy surrendered them with a stricken, quizzical look as King said they could go on without him. "He did something I've never heard him do before," Levison confided afterward on his wiretapped phone. "He criticized three members of the staff with his eloquence. And believe me, that's murder. And was very negative." King said Young had given in to doubt, Bevel to brains, and Jackson to ambition. He said they had forgotten the simple truths of witness. He said the movement had made them...
Heading west between Christmas and New Year’s, the Harvard men’s hockey team earned a split in the unfriendly confines of No. 10 North Dakota’s Ralph Engelstad Arena, winning Thursday and losing Friday in a pair of one-goal affairs. “It does a lot for our confidence,” junior center Kevin Du said. “We proved to ourselves that we could play with any team in the country.” The Crimson (10-6-1, 7-5-0 ECAC) hadn’t defeated...
...Harvard men’s hockey team travels to Grand Forks, N.D. for a two-game set on Dec. 29-30 in the Fighting Sioux’s Ralph Engelstad Arena, which holds 11,500 fans. The latter of the contests will be broadcast on ESPNU. The Crimson (9-5-1, 7-5-0 ECAC) is 3-3-1 in its last seven games, while North Dakota (12-7-1, 6-6-0 WCHA) is 5-2-0 in the same span. It will be the first time Harvard has played a WCHA team since Dec. 27, 2003, when...