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...time in which reality TV is all the rage, it's appropriate that television's most-watched event - the Super Bowl, not that "Jerry Springer" with palm trees, "Temptation Island" - is highlighted by players whose careers have eluded the shelter from real life that's customarily granted to wealthy pro athletes (see chart below...
...brought him to power. The former guerrilla leader tapped into resentment of his "outsider" regime in Kinshasa by initiating a pogrom against Rwandan Tutsis - the very army that had transformed him from a minor regional insurgent into the president. Rwanda had installed Kabila precisely because Mobutu had provided shelter to the Hutu genocidaires who had killed a million of their Tutsi countrymen in 1994, and Kabila had failed to deliver on promises to stop the Hutu gunmen operating from bases inside the Congo. When he turned on the Rwandans in his capital and made common cause with the Hutu militants...
...also congratulated the student volunteers who have staffed the shelter since its inception...
Alina Das '01, director of the shelter, said she considers the program a success...
...only student-run shelter in the country, Harvard Sq. Homeless Shelter provides nightly service for about two dozen guests...