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Before Aristide departed, hundreds of Aristide's own heavily armed thugs, the chimeres (Creole for mythical monsters), had terrorized the city in anticipation of a rebel assault--looting warehouses, hijacking and smashing cars at barricades of burning tires, even killing people, sometimes execution-style, for reasons as slight as not flashing five fingers to signal the five full years of Aristide's current presidency. One ski-masked crew, blaring a police siren from a pickup, accosted TIME journalists at gunpoint, shouting "Not even the rats move here without our permission!" Because Haiti's police force is a threadbare farce...
...brooding star of Con Air and Leaving Las Vegas would seem to have little in common with the slight, wiry man looking vaguely anxious as he faces a less-than-imposing panel of five student reporters on Tuesday. Cage was considered a few years back for the part of a big-screen Superman; calling Kaufman Clark Kent would be something of a stretch. For anyone who’s seen Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston...
Junior guard Kevin Rogus broke out of his slight slump with 28 points, including six three pointers...
...move was, like many Kirby decisions, designed to reduce FAS spending, even a slight cut in the HFA’s budget risks destroying cultural treasures by neglecting to perform needed preservation techniques. Harvard is caretaker to what are often the last or best-preserved copies of coveted and rare films, and it would be reckless if the libraries were not able to maintain the restoration and purchasing power of the current HFA. Professors often complain about the poor state of Widener’s collections, with critical books missing or misplaced due to inadequate staffing and funding; it would...
...Crimson’s two losses this year came in a slight hiccup against Princeton and an epic battle against Dartmouth. But these speed bumps on the way to the Frozen Four are overshadowed by the dominance Harvard has exhibited the rest of the season...