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...Game today, thousands of screaming fans will fill Harvard Stadium to root for the Crimson. But the most die-hard, hoarse-voiced fans may not be the students, but Harvard officials and faculty members who have been cheering on the football team for decades...
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...crisis has its immediate roots in the ethnic convulsions that swept over Rwanda in 1994, when Hutu extremists butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, hacking many of them to death with machetes. Fearing Tutsi revenge, 1.7 million Hutu then fled their homes. Those who eventually clustered in Zaire's teeming camps, however, were no ordinary refugees; they included thousands of militiamen, government officials and soldiers dodging punishment for their roles in the Tutsi genocide, which many still seemed determined to carry to its end. Since then the camps have provided these groups with a base from which to wage their...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The breakdown of families and the disregard of moral values are at the very root of our economic woes...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The root challenge to traditional family values in America ... stems from the economic squeeze people feel as they attempt to provide ... for their children while saving for their own retirement...