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Eight of Harvard's finest sailors flaunted their talents this weekend. At the Urn Regatta, held at the Harvard Sailing Center, the women's team finished sixth and qualified for the Atlantic Coast Championships, which will take place in two weeks at the Coast Guard Academy. Meanwhile, the co-ed team cruised to victory at the Shell Trophy Regatta, held down the river at the MIT course...
Simon DeDeo's op-ed savaging Margaret Thatcher's legacy ("The Darker Side of the Iron Lady," Oct. 28) is sadly misinformed. First, in the case of the Falklands War, Thatcher was responding to an invasion of sovereign British territory, territory whose inhabitants despised the invaders. While the eventual liberation of the islands might not have made "economic sense" as DeDeo points out, there was still a moral imperative to act decisively in the face of Argentinian aggression...
...Dartboard were pleased to open yesterday's Boston Globe and find an op-ed by Mike Barnicle, forced to leave the Globe last summer after failing to provide corroboration for quotations he had used in a 1995 column about two children with cancer. Finally, it seemed, three months after leaving, Barnicle was taking responsibility for his actions and apologizing...
...ed reads like the typical Barnicle columns Dartboard used to know and love: equal parts schmaltz, anger and righteous indignation. But Barnicle, the self-styled fighter for the downtrodden and voiceless, doesn't seem to realize he was in the wrong. In one rationalization of his behavior, he writes, "...reconstruction dialogue in a 1995 column is a clear failure to abide by today's standards. It was not always so but is now." The implication is that this 25-year veteran of the Metro page was taken by surprise by suddenly stricter standards. He also implies that the greater good...
...beginning of this month, more than 3,000 undergraduates got a letter from Byerly Hall playing Ed McMahon...