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...Team Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand in Auckland, bringing the cup to Europe for the first time since a U.S. boat won the Auld Mug, in a race off the Isle of Wight back in 1851. Africa's yachting tradition is limited, to put it kindly. Though sailors in eastern and western Africa skillfully navigate the seas in traditional craft, yacht racing has been limited in most countries to small clubs with a few dinghies. In South Africa, where yachting is popular in cities such as Cape Town and Durban, the sport is still a long way from the professional...
...dual season for the second varsity, which had just one dual victory a year ago. A lopsided win by the Harvard varsity four and a five-seat victory for the freshman eight helped Harvard improve its Smith Cup record to 15-3. The heavyweights will not race again until Eastern Sprints on May 21, where the Crimson varsity will be after its fourth consecutive Sprints title while the second varsity will be looking for its fourth Sprints title in five years.—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...travel to face Princeton for the third time this season, the team will not only face the No. 2 Tigers, but it will also have to handle a new force working against them: revenge.Princeton will work to reassert its dominance over Radcliffe and gain back momentum heading into the Eastern Sprints with a victory at home this weekend.But the Black and White is focused on overcoming both forces, for a third straight victory would solidify its place on top. The Black and White is not satisfied; in contrast, the squad is working even harder.“We?...
...recent survey from the Pew Research Center suggests that America is losing the public relations war. The report stated that 70% of global respondents agreed it was “good for the US to feel vulnerable after the attacks [of September 11],” 80% of Middle-Eastern respondents felt that “US policy caused September 11,” and a majority of Pakistani citizens expressed confidence that bin Laden would “do the right thing regarding world affairs...
Naturally, it turns out to be a trail that leads them around the globe to locales like the underwater depths of the Eastern Mediterranean...