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Racing in their worst weather to date, the Harvard lights lost a four-minute race to Navy by one length of open water. Although they were furiously bailing water out of the battered boat at the race's end, they could row back to the dock, while the freshman boat had to be lifted out of the water...
After the race, the MIT boat barely made it back to its boathouse before it, too, submerged in the choppy water, and had to be towed into the dock...
Darwin in the Dock...
Your article "Putting Darwin Back in the Dock" [March 16] was helpful in dealing with the creationist campaign to have the biblical version of man's origins taught in the schools. But if there are problems with Darwin's theory of evolution, there are also problems with the creation story. Genesis gives two accounts of the beginning. The first and second chapters differ significantly in describing how it came about. The Bible educates Jews and Christians about who created the world and why. It does not teach when or how. I am content to leave that to science...
...questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb, the audacity that is close to rudeness, favored by British interviewers who put their own country's political figures in the dock, Fallaci-style...