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...team sailing as part of the co-ed squad, but we look forward to more opportunities for team racing as a women’s team and hopefully one day a women’s team racing national championship.”Once again the Crimson finished strong to claim their runner-up position over the two-day affair. Harvard was tied for second with Yale with a 7-2 record after day one but then went on to post the best record of Sunday’s championship round at 5-1 to finish 12-3 on the weekend...
...prosecution paints a more complex picture, contending that Lynch's operation was pervaded by marijuana transactions outside the store by his employees and customers; they claim evidence shows that, though Lynch may not have known of such transactions, "the atmosphere and example that defendant set, and that his employees and customers followed, was not one of strict compliance with the law but rather a casual, almost carnival-like attitude toward the use and distribution of marijuana." One of the most serious federal charges leveled against Lynch was that he sold the drug to more than 250 minors, which is defined...
...Earth Hour itself is easy to make fun of - skeptics will say that turning out the lights won't make but a light ding in our carbon emissions, and critics will claim it proves that environmentalists really do want to send us straight to the dark ages. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, is holding a counter-protest during the same time period called Celebrate Human Achievement Hour, which will "salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible." (So if you've ever wanted to throw a party...
...match is set to begin at 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium, where the Crimson hopes to claim its first Ivy League victory of the season...
...France's parliament for seven years, from a relative silent spell. During a session of the European Union's legislature on March 25, Le Pen repeated his notorious contention that "the gas chambers were a detail of Second World War history". The first time Le Pen made that claim, in 1987, he was convicted in both France and Germany for violating laws banning racist and anti-Semitic hate-speech. In repeating the scandalous notion in Strasbourg Wednesday, Le Pen sought to justify his initial voicing of it by describing it as merely a "statement of fact". (See pictures...