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...Harvard started slow and was in fifth place after the first 300 meters. But the Crimson pushed aggressively and was able to take down each boat ahead of it until it was neck and neck with the Big Red.As both boats crossed the finish line, there was little consensus as to who had won. Only ten minutes later, once the judges had examined a photograph of the finish, was Cornell declared the national champion.“I thought we won the race, but that’s what a photo finish is for,” Kauble said...
...said. “It’s a unique hiring opportunity for Donald Trump if she’s lucky enough to win.”Although the cast is balanced by gender, Ruggiero is indeed familiar with competing in male-dominated environments such as the boardroom. The consensus world’s best female defenseman, standing at 5’10, made ice hockey history in January 2005 when she skated in a game with the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League alongside her brother Bill, the squad’s goalie, making her the first...
...highway through the middle of Harvard Yard if the University didn’t solve the parking problem.NO ONE IN THE DRIVER’S SEATWhile a number of authorities proposed solutions to the space crunch, no one seemed willing to lead the charge, and a consensus was hard to come by. Patrick F. Ready, the chief of police for Cambridge, wanted to ban all cars in the College except those belonging to seniors and faculty. Others, including mayor John J. Foley, looked to alternate side of the street parking as the solution. Only City Manager John J. Curry...
...films that mostly underachieved. The big-name items - Pedro Almodóvar's Volver, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette - all had their adherents, but many others who expressed disappointment or derision. This was a festival with no consensus masterpiece. A few smaller movies got high praise, perhaps because they scaled modest peaks, while the more ambitious works, depending on the individual response, either soared or crashed. Start at the top, with Volver. After two flat-out great films (All About My Mother and Talk to Her) and the crafty...
MORALES The nationalization was simply my government obeying a demand made by the Bolivian people in the election. That's democracy, a communal democracy with consensus. I think Mr. Bush wants us to be a colonized democracy: dependent, submissive and subordinate to foreign interests...