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...that much closer to extending its season. The day was filled with windy conditions as the first crews took to the water, but for the Radcliffe heavyweights, that was the last thing on their minds. Ranked just out of medaling contention in every race except the third varsity B four, the Black and White was ready to assert itself as a team to beat. “We wanted to go out there and come in above our seeding,” varsity coxswain Jill Carlson said. “We wanted to medal. We wanted to be better than...
...College’s Dean for Administration Georgene B. Herschbach and Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere will both be leaving their posts by the end of this year. Herschbach is accepting the voluntary early retirement package and will leave in the fall after almost three decades at Harvard, while Rinere will become Dean of Advising and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia. Their departures come in the wake of another senior College official’s departure, as Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd confirmed late last month that she will also...
...veteran American news-wire reporters were making their umpteenth papal trips. Victor Simpson of the Associated Press took his first in 1979; Phil Pullella of Reuters made his maiden voyage in 1982. We won't report who gave which mark, but one gave a B "'cause he made the trip in the first place," the other a C-plus "for missed opportunities...
...arrival of the papal plane at Ciampino airport, the wire reporter's C-plus grade for the Pontiff had been bumped up to a B-minus. Maybe it was the Israeli chardonnay served onboard. Maybe it was simply an acknowledgment that we - and the Pontiff - were safely back in Rome...
...Pervez Hoodbhoy, a professor at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, pulls up on his laptop the pages of a first-grade primer distributed in private religious schools. "A is for Allah," he reads. "B is for bandook, or gun." T, for thakrau, collision, is illustrated with a drawing of the World Trade Center in flames, while Z, for zenoub, the plural of sin, is depicted with alcohol bottles, kites, guitars, drums, a television and a chess set. Any attempt to change the religious curriculum is met with fierce resistance. "Many fear that to be seen protesting against the extremists...