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...straight line far from simple. “The conditions were extreme,” junior Grace Hallowell said. “I don’t think we’ve ever raced in anything like that. There were 20-25 mile-per-hour wins and it was difficult getting aligned at the start.” Competing against the elements challenged the Black and White’s rowers to maintain composure and strong fundamentals, but Radcliffe’s practice appears to be paying off. “In these conditions, you have to say composed...
...something—pre-med, pre-law, pre-finance—has the potential to cut down on spontaneity, to close off options before they’re even considered. Those who define themselves as future members of a profession will find it difficult to ever truly inhabit the mindset of those outside their discipline...
...remains a war without witnesses, and independent reports are rare. Foreign journalists, monitors, and aid workers are banned from the epicenter of the fighting, making it increasingly difficult to produce meaningful criticism of the government’s actions...
...Turkish metropolises, the president has found his considerable success at setting a new tone for international relations repeatedly frustrated by the harsh reality of how hard the job is. Despite new agreements for international support of the war effort in Afghanistan, victory against Al Qaeda remains a distant, difficult, long-range goal, with the military onus remaining on U.S. combat troops. Furthermore, a consensus of economic observers advise that the economic crisis, though mollified by some international confidence-building agreement, is unlikely to be solved quickly by the actions taken by the G20. (See TIME's photos of "Obama...
...difficult to say for sure if this week's events are part of a sustained dissident campaign of civic disruption or simply acts of sporadic, copycat violence. Either way, the individuals behind this new threat to Northern Ireland's increasingly fragile peace have clearly studied their history books. A similar campaign of low-level, civic disruption by the Provisional IRA in the late 1960s and 1970s led to the mass deployment of British troops on Northern Irish streets and triggered one of the bloodiest periods in the 30-year sectarian conflict known as the Troubles. (See pictures of new hope...