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Amid all this, the Haitian military seems to have embraced a surreal attitude halfway between apathy and stubborn denial. On Thursday morning, 200 green-uniformed soldiers, some carrying bazookas, marched through downtown Port-au-Prince in a show of force, occasionally breaking into a spirited goose step. On Friday, top military officials gathered in the parking lot next to the General Quarters to celebrate Cedras' 45th birthday. On the menu: croissants, Teem and sugary schadec juice, made with Haitian grapefruits...
...Czechoslovakia as a teenager, knowing she might never see her family again. She was gritty enough to bear the burden of being the world's most famous gay athlete, made harsher because she was also the first woman in her sport to train the way men do. Yet this stubborn competitor was always fragile, often on the edge of a "Martina meltdown." No one wins everything, but it seemed Navratilova should. Her fans still agonize over the 1989 U.S. Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which...
...Stubborn Scourge on the Highways...
Students were disappointed with the dismissal, calling professors "stubborn" and "selfish." But Secretary to the Faculty Council John B. Fox Jr. '59 says the issue never dies...
...unusually stubborn men from Texas -- one rich, the other never quite sure of having gas money or whether his truck's head gasket will last till the next interstate exit -- are locked in a battle over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber...