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...Eastern Sprints will be a test.For the Radcliffe lightweights, it will be a challenge to reassert its lost number one ranking.And for the heavyweights, Sunday will determine if the team’s streak of eight straight NCAA championship births continues.Both squads simply hope they can pass.Over the past eight seasons, the Radcliffe heavyweights have received a bid to the NCAA Championships—to which only 12 teams are invited annually—an unprecedented modern run. This year, however, the streak is in jeopardy, as the heavyweights have lost four straight regattas and post a No. 18 ranking...
...departments have trimmed their programs for students, guest lecturers, and trips to out-of-town conferences.“We are talking about small amounts of money, but major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,” P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies had to reduce spending by 20 percent last year, according to its director, Peter A. Hall. In so doing, the center eliminated an annual graduate student conference and cut back on the workshops and post-doctoral fellowships...
...favorable trend of growth in the lightweight walk-on program and in the strength of heavyweight freshmen is painting a positive picture for Radcliffe crew in the future, hopefully starting with the very near future--this weekend at Eastern Sprints...
...known McClellan more than 15 years, read a fake briefing as if he were McClellan. "As part of our new openness policy, I wanted to announce that we will be allowing the press to get an up-close, personal and full immersion view of our secret prisons in Eastern Europe," Herman said with McClellanesque matter-of-factness. "That will be pool only. The poolers will be Helen Thomas and David Gregory." Then, referring to persistent questioner Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe, he added, "I wanted to get back to you with answers to some questions I left hanging. Goyal...
...mortgage belt-families is needed right now. Petrol prices are high (by the standards to which Australians see as their birth right) and are not expected to ease for some time. The Reserve Bank's move on interest rates last week has made suburban families in the south-eastern States uneasy, particularly as the market value of their McMansions has been stagnant (or worse...