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...period of unrest, as the country stood on the brink of anarchy. In some areas law and order have virtually broken down, and an estimated 500 people have been killed in random and often gruesome violence. At the same time, the country was struggling with democratic procedures that were unfamiliar to Haitians after three decades of dictatorship by the Duvalier family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti Bloodshed Blocks a Ballot | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Coupled with the fact that the Tigers have also captured all or part of the last four ECAC and Ivy League titles, Harvard will be starting its 1987-'88 season from an unfamiliar position: that of an underdog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rediscovering That Championship Feeling | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Usually teams take a year, sometimes two, to adapt to a new coach. When Jape Shattuck left to pursue a career in sports law, Getman brought in a new system, new ideas, a new practice routine. Everything was new. Unfamiliar...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Can't Forget That Feeling | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

Even though the Quakers will assume the unfamiliar role of spoilers for the next three weeks, that doesn't mean Harvard will be facing a pushover Penn squad at the Stadium in two weeks. The Quakers have always played the Crimson tough...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No Pain, Big Gain | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...Students, particularly those who have justleft home, are ultimately vulnerable in that theyare in an unfamiliar and often hostile world cutoff from their usual sources of support such asparents, friends, and home churches," Thornbergsays. "When duplicitous, high-pressure recruitingtactics are used by religious groups, the basictrust of education is violated...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Area Schools Fear Campus Proselytizing | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

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