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...time and experience for qualifiers.”“In sailing, only about half the Ivy teams have competitive teams, so [Ivy championships are] actually not that big a deal,” she added.Skipper Watson and freshman crew Meghan Wareham placed 10th in the A division, a good result considering the conditions.“We were encouraged by the results because it was windy,” Watson said. “We were on the smaller end so we did decently.”The A team finished very strongly, notching top-eight finishes...
...latest progress report is the 10th released by the U.N. commission since it began its investigation in June 2005, but it was the first issued by the new chief investigator, Daniel Bellemare, a Canadian. Its contents were keenly awaited to see if he would be more forthcoming than his tight-lipped Belgian predecessor, Serge Brammertz. The original investigator, Detlev Mehlis, a German prosecutor, produced two sensational reports during his six-month tenure that read more like crime thrillers. A draft version of the first report in October 2005 even named four leading Syrian security officials as suspects. Mehlis also advised...
...protests in Lhasa in the last week have been the most violent in the last forty years, but are hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, they started during the anniversary of a failed rebellion on March 10th, 1959. Ten years before that, and just months after securing control of continental China after a long civil war, the aptly named Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded Tibet. The New York Times and other international media outlets covered the desperate radio broadcasts of a “shocked” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political...
...herself in the position to be in the thick of it at the height of the competition.” Of course, Christensen is no stranger to the NCAAs or being an All-American. In last year’s spring outdoor season, the Celina, Texas native finished 10th in the NCAA Championship with a 1.77m jump to notch her first All-American nod. Prior to that she finished fourth in the 2006 outdoor NCAA East Regionals to qualify for the NCAA Championships as a freshman. Christensen’s first 1.83 meter clearance came last year at home...
...quite slim. With only 10 qualifiers after regional competition, it would have been nearly impossible to finish above the few teams with 12 fencers, the maximum number allotted per team. That, however, did not prevent some strong individual performances. Sherrill, coming off his first All-American performance with a 10th-place finish last year, found himself in 13th place at the end of the first day. The next day, he came back strong and posted seven victories while increasing his indicator rating from +1 to +18. “I was happy with how I fenced, especially the second...