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Calling out "Help the hunger in Somalia," members of the Harvard African Students Association tabled in front of Widener Library yesterday to raise money for that war-torn nation...

Author: By Susan S. Shin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Money Solicited for Somalia | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

...heard about in passing was now alive, breathing, walking the stage, evolving--with each new face, into the terrible truth at its center. A dramatic gesture toward immortality, a dramatist's gesture toward immortality. An immortality of the pain and the grief. An immortality of the voices, the torn and urgent voices that vie in boundless cacophony. Voices to which the rest of us shut our ears to hear of only in passing...

Author: By W. CINQUE Henderson, | Title: Stop and Listen to the Fire | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

...group of Cambridge residents gathered on the steps of City Hall last night in a candlelight vigil to support the people of war-torn Somalia...

Author: By John Tessitore, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Marchers Support Somalia | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

Perhaps the Council doesn't have confidence in its future members to let them engage in the volatile business of campaigning. Or perhaps they fear their current positions, gained in these same sham elections, might be torn from them by candidates more suited to a longer, more comprehensive campaign...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: How to Win Friends and Influence People | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...broader tasks become crucial as winter approaches with a cold promise of more agony for civilians pinned down in Sarajevo, Goradze and other towns in the war-torn republic. But movement toward an end to the hostilities remains fitful at best. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, co-chairmen of the peace conference on + Yugoslavia, were encouraged that leaders of all three Bosnian factions agreed to meet in Geneva this week. With the spirit of compromise long since bludgeoned by atrocities on all sides, however, no agreement at the table is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beefing Up the Bosnian Brigade | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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