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...miasma of death hangs over the village of Nyarubuye, overpowering the scent of the surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting...
...going to move quickly to change the University's administrative structure and smooth over rough spots. He was going to be accessible, answering letters promptly and speaking expansively about Harvard's role in the world...
...first, the team's performance seemed strangely familiar. Setting off on a rough start, both Radcliffe varsity boats were mauled by the Brown in the season-opener by deficits as a large as ten seconds...
...since this is not exactly a high school yearbook, such niceties will be dispensed with: the squad (6-7-2 overall, 3-4 Ivy) had a rough year, one of its roughest in many moons, and on one on the team is going to deny...
...rough year," senior tri-captain Steve Aoki says. "We were going well for a while, and then everything seemed to go wrong. It was a pretty bad finish...