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...Charles, who notched 100 points to place third in their division.In C-division, a fourth place finish, courtesy of freshman skipper John Stokes and sophomore crew Alex Bick, ultimately carried Harvard (327 points) into second place overall behind national No. 1 Boston College (251 points). Brown (332 points), the Coast Guard Academy (337 points), and Connecticut College (349 points) rounded out the top five. SHERMAN HOYT TROPHYTeams from 18 schools convened in Providence, RI., for the 10-race Sherman Hoyt Trophy. A top-three finish at the event, hosted by Brown on Saturday and Sunday, would have earned Harvard...
...added, "who can be a coast-to-coast candidate...
...most likely candidate to become Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, comes from a small ethnic group known as Kaszebe (Kashubians) from the region around Gdansk on the Baltic coast. Like many Polish politicians, he is a veteran of the Solidarity trade union movement; he joined its student wing as a young history student, and as a result was forced to work as a manual laborer under martial law. Tusk is a familiar figure in the country's post-communist era, having served as deputy speaker of the Senate from 1997 to 2001 and as deputy speaker of the more powerful lower...
...politics as in medicine, there are some contagions that spread despite the most prudent vaccines. Witness the news this week that the United Kingdom has decided to lay claim to 385,000 sq mi (1 million sq km) of seabed off the coast of Antarctica, despite being a signatory to the 1959 treaty that was supposed to protect the earth's most desolate continent from the vagaries of international competition...
...Zealand and Norway) have also laid claims to sectors of Antarctica; those of Chile and Argentina overlap with the British claim. (The United States recognizes none of them, but reserves the right to make its own claim down the line.) Each of those seven claims include coastline, and every coast presents an opportunity under Article 76 of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: If you can prove that the continental shelf extends out into the sea, you can claim mineral rights out to a maximum of 350 nautical miles. This is precisely what Britain is preparing...