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...race against tougher competition.” CLASS OF 2004 CUP Mirroring last year’s results, the Black and White surged to take the first three races of the day, as the third varsity four, the novice eight, and the second varsity eight rallied to make a claim to the cup with a 4.3 second margin. “I think as a team we were, in both boats, disappointed with how we rowed,” co-captain Katherine Woodman-Maynard said. Though the second varsity eight won its race, the close margin caused Stevens to take...
...read on your Web site that you think “Cuban Linx” is the “Scarface” of hip-hop albums, which is a pretty bold claim. Do you ever have moments of doubt or are you always that confident? R: Nah, I’m always confident. But you know, I’m human, it be times when I panic, it could be a big game and you start sweatin’. That don’t mean you don’t feel like you gon’ win, it?...
...noble or exemplary. These are people for whom the military - with its enlistment bonuses, its promises of health, educational and even travel benefits - represents their best chance to escape a minimum-wage life. It is a measure of their desperation that they are willing to risk their lives to claim these boons. It is a measure of their dutifulness that they often evoke a certain patriotism to rationalize their choice. There is nothing ignoble about this deal and there is nothing ignoble when they realize that their idealism cannot sustain the sacrifices they are called upon to make. What...
...financial community are trying to fix what he calls a "market failure." On March 28 the financial group Canopy Capital announced that it would pay the Iwokrama forest reserve in the tiny South American country of Guyana in return for ownership of the forest's ecosystem services and a claim on any profits that might one day be made on them. Canopy Capital wouldn't say how big the deal was, but the firm's managing director Hylton Philipson said it would cover a significant chunk of the reserve's $1.2 million annual budget and run for five years, with...
...seven flights left on Thursday without luggage. By the early evening the airline had suspended check-in luggage because the terminal's conveyor belt was clogged, and arriving passengers waited up to four hours to reclaim their luggage. Angry scenes reportedly erupted in passport control and baggage claim areas as disgruntled passengers pushed and shoved...