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Word had gone out that the memorial service for the 17 victims of a savage election-day attack on a schoolhouse in downtown Port-au-Prince was set for 9 a.m. But when the hour tolled, the Basilica Notre Dame was empty, and churchworkers began locking up the faded pink-and-yellow cathedral. The attendants nervously explained that the service had been canceled "because of rain." On the steps of the cathedral, a 79-year-old man squinted at the light drizzle. "People are too scared," he whispered. "It is still too soon...
...activity could not disguise the deep psychic toll taken by the election-day violence that left at least 50 people dead and dozens wounded last week. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, hundreds of Haitians packed their meager belongings and fled to the countryside. At the Basilica Notre Dame, the usual crowd of devout worshipers was missing. Instead, a few beggars haunted the steps. It was as if Haitians had lost their faith even in prayer...
...DIEGO W2-0 Oct. 9 at CSU-Los Angeles W4-0 Oct. 11 CSU-San Francisco W4-0 Oct. 18 at UC-Irvine W3-1 Oct. 23 at Stanford W4-0 Oct. 25 at St. Mary's W6-1 Oct. 31 INDIANA L3-2 Nov. 1 NOTRE DAME W1-0 Nov. 4 UCLA L3-1 Nov. 7 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT W4-0 Nov. 15 at St. Louis* W2-1 Nov. 21 at SMU* W3-2 Nov. 29 at UCLA* W2-1 *--NCAA Tournament game Statistics...
...details, as with the fragments of two angels from a demolished late 13th century tomb in Sawley in Derbyshire -- faces and drapery so refined in their carving, and yet so plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly...
...seemed so promising four years ago. The Notre Dame-educated Duarte had just defeated Roberto d'Aubuisson, an ex-army major who was widely linked with death-squad killings. Duarte opened talks with the F.M.L.N., promised to investigate alleged army massacres of civilians and create new jobs. "Imagine," says one of the country's religious educators, "if Abraham Lincoln came back and ran for President of the United States. That's the kind of expectation some people had of Duarte...