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...races with the New York Athletic Club (NYAC).New co-captains Lesley Burkett and Jennifer Chung seem confident in the potential of this year’s squad. Leadership lost aside, the lightweights enter 2006-2007 with the same goal in mind: make it to the winners’ dock in Camden.It is not about what the team will miss from its past, but what it can gain this year. It is a new year: they are leaders of this team, and they want to acquire that elusive national championship this year.“I think everyone has stepped...
...junior level. Four seniors, however, raced to gold as freshmen in 2004, beginning a run at Camden that has suffered two consecutive blows in their years with the varsity. This fall, this winter, and this spring—all are part of their quest for the winners’ dock they claimed as freshmen three years ago, when everything was just beginning.Now they want to end it the right way. ***Perhaps at the start line, they were unimpressive.Skinny. Short. Maybe a little out of place.There is no lightweight freshman eight event at the IRA Regatta. No lightweight freshman four event...
...March and April, it wasn’t quite going our way, and we weren’t being very positive.” A fourth-place finish at Sprints for both varsity eights left even more in doubt, as the Crimson failed to reach the winners’ dock after a one-two varsity sweep in 2005.But in the two weeks separating Sprints from IRAs, the Crimson settled into permanent lineups. Stability replaced unpredictability, and a new attitude overtook Newell Boathouse.“We just started to bring out the positive in everything that we were doing...
...trial is unlikely to proceed, however, without Saddam inside the rust-colored metal bars of the dock. Even if the former dictator refuses to attend, the court can demand that Saddam be brought before the judge by force. Guards used force during the Dujail case in February to bring Saddam and three other defendants, disheveled and in their pyjamas, to hear testimony. Saddam then claimed he was on a hunger strike to protest his rough treatment by then chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman...
Imagine the public’s confusion, and outrage, if the government suddenly decided to dock 15 percent of its disbursals for an unknown purpose. Unthinkable? Not if the ‘government’ is Harvard University and the recipients are student groups. On Sep. 7, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin announced that student groups’ donor gift accounts, which allow alumni to earmark their Harvard donations for specific student groups, will face a 15 percent tax on all withdrawals. The tax will start at 5 percent this fiscal year and rise an additional...