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...Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send extremely slight boats skittering over the surface of the Guadalquivir River. In the final of the men's coxless pair, the British team of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell avenged the defeat they suffered in the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July at the hands of Australians James Tomkins and Drew Ginn. The British crew - who until that defeat had been virtually unchallenged, winning a string of 24 world-class races - overcame the Aussies' smoother technique with raw power...
...neighborhood opposition. The departures of former University President Neil L. Rudenstine and University Art Museums Director James Cuno have reduced support for art at Harvard. More importantly, the museum required an easement for contruction under a public street, and given the Center for Government and International Studies easement defeat, Harvard realized it was unlikely to get an easment for the museum...
...Harvard men’s soccer team rebounded from its first defeat of the season by defeating the Fairfield Stags, 2-1 in overtime last night...
...Harvard men’s soccer team will look to bounce back from a shocking 5-1 defeat on Sunday at the hands of the University of Rhode Island when it travels to Connecticut to play Fairfield University tonight...
...Crimson’s assessment is shortsighted at yet another level: succumbing to threat of financial loss is, in fact, a defeat of the school’s mission (however loosely The Crimson has defined it). As far as I know, Harvard’s mission includes the idea of respect for all its students. To say that Clark’s decision was made in order to pursue Harvard’s mission is to aggrandize inappropriately; Harvard’s mission of fostering an atmosphere of respect has been trumped by Harvard’s goals...