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...Wisconsin clearly placed first and they are setting the standard,” said Radcliffe lightweight coach Cecile Tucker. “Princeton probably didn’t have their best race today, but they are always a force to contend with. MIT has been doing a great...
Harvard’s next meet is the Heptagonal Championships, held in New York City. The team expects to drastically improve upon its last place finish from a year ago and contend for the title. Defending champion Dartmouth, Princeton and Cornell are among the other contenders...
...Nunn-Lugar and other programs spend $872 million a year to safeguard the former Soviet Union's weapons of mass destruction. Washington has had some spectacular successes in this field; in 1994, more than 1,300 lbs. of fissile material were airlifted from Kazakhstan to the U.S. But critics contend that Nunn-Lugar is underfunded. The Bush Administration has proposed cutting its budget $100 million this year, a sum that took $20 million out of a program designed to find jobs for unemployed Russian nuclear scientists. Now we must hope they haven't gone to work for bin Laden...
Harvard is currently a member of the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit White House initiative to monitor labor practices around the world. HSAS wants Harvard to switch to the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent monitoring group that they contend is the only organization consistent with Harvard’s labor policies...
Most of the top Northeast teams, including all eight Ivy League squads, will contend at the ECACs, but with home-field advantage, Harvard should not have much trouble picking up the title. But it will have to watch out for much-improved opponents, like Ivy co-champs Columbia and Yale...