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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After months of complaints from officers, the Harvard Police Department appears to be undergoing a shake...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Police Department Undergoing Changes | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...smart one, the goal-oriented one, the one that's going places. Crimson picks up its mess, eventually. The mag is the fun-loving troublemaker whose grades aren't as good. The mag office never gets picked up. FM is the one mom and dad look at and shake their heads. It's a good thing they have the Crimson to do them proud...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Hey, Mom! FM's Bugging Me! | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

Dinkins and Florio, term limits in Maine and New York City--these are all supposedly signs that we as an electorate have become, in the words of a New York Times headline, "cranky." Unwilling to give the poor incumbents a fair shake, we fickle voters have apparently "fire[d] everyone in sight" and are irrationally expecting the impossible from our elected officials...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Canceling the Incumbents | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...colonnaded balcony of military headquarters in Port-au- Prince before slipping into the office of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Haiti's military ruler. Even when the Haitian military was bracing for a U.S. Marine landing last month, harried and grim-faced senior commanders still paused in their duties to shake hands with the tiny Canadian. When the action is less tense, Garrison skin dives with Cedras and schmoozes on the phone with staffers of U.S. Senators Jesse Helms and Bob Dole, offering insider tidbits about Haiti's political situation. "Everything the U.S. Senate knows," boasts Garrison, "comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: With Friends Like These | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Washington's continued willingness to negotiate with Haiti's military leaders stuns Aristide supporters. "Apparently," marvels Robert White, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and an unpaid adviser to Aristide, "nothing will shake the touching faith the Clinton Administration has in the Haitian military's bona fides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: With Friends Like These | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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