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Radcliffe heavyweight crew sent all six boats to each grand final and took home two bronze medals, one in the varsity eight, and a gold medal in the second novice eight at the all-important Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges on the Cooper River, demonstrating the depth of the Black and White program...
...pretty tough—it was really disappointing,” said Jeff Overington, five-seat of the varsity lightweight eight. “But I think it’s impressive that Harvard has such a good record. Most other teams have good and bad performances at Eastern Sprints, and Harvard has consistently been really good. But it’s disappointing to not continue that historical performance...
...heavyweight varsity eight entered Eastern Sprints as reigning champion of five of the last six Eastern Sprints titles, including a gold medal-finish last year...
Though the war was decades ago, and the combatants middle-Eastern, the issues the film raises are in no way provincial. Waltz With Bashir should touch all those who see it - both the vast majority who have been raised on gung-ho war movies, and the small minority who find that the truth is the opposite of the fiction. "It's like nothing you've seen in American movies," Forman has said. "No glam, no glory. Just very young men going nowhere, shooting at no one they know, getting shot by no one they know, then going home and trying...
...hereditary chieftain of Lebanon's Druze Muslim minority, Jumblatt earned the nickname "the Weather Vane" for being able to steer his followers through the ever changing winds of Middle Eastern politics. A former vassal to the Syrian regime, he switched his loyalties to the Bush Administration after the invasion of Iraq, when it briefly seemed as if American military power would transform the region. Now he seems ready to turn again. Sitting in his garden terrace with a few family members and loyal retainers, Jumblatt said that he has spoken with the U.S. embassy to deliver his grim assessment...