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...spring break,” Kharrazi said. “We trained here over spring break. When everyone empties out of campus, we stick around and train.” Though the lightweights came close to achieving a clean sweep, the results of their races where a lot closer compared to the team’s blowout margins of victory in 2008. The last time these crews faced one another, the Black and White swept all three races by at least ten seconds, with the Novice Eight winning by an impressive 18 seconds. Yesterday marked the first dual-race...
...stopped eating red meat for a long time. I felt like cows are mammals and they're much closer to us than birds. Then I read like three different sources that said if you're going to eat any meat, it should be beef because cows at least spend half their lives grazing and get to experience their essential cowness, whereas chickens really have no life at all unless you get the free range ones...
...deal, embezzling over $3 million from a state fund and laundering millions to overseas accounts. Chen has already admitted his wife wired $20 million in leftover campaign funds overseas, but he insists his case is one of political persecution by the new Kuomintang (KMT) administration, which has been forging closer ties with China since coming into power last...
...courtroom a much thinner man after more than two months in detention. Chen was known during his eight years in office for irritating China with his open support for a greater Taiwanese independence from the mainland. Taiwan's current President Ma Ying-jeou has moved quickly to forge closer economic ties with China since his election last year. Taiwan and China have since opened up tourism, palace museum exchanges, direct charter flights and are planning to discuss further economic agreements this year. (Read TIME's conversation with Ma Ying-jeou...
...Europe keep the pressure on even as it reaches out for closer ties? Yes, say some in Minsk. "No normal person can be opposed to dialogue, cooperation, and aspirations to make the situation better," former presidential candidate and political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin told Radio Free Europe recently...