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...junior co-captain Liz Demers said. “But we were really proud with the outcome. The boat felt really good throughout the race, our coxswain steered an amazing race.” The first varsity finished sixth among the collegiate boats and eighth overall in posting a time of 16.38.04. The crew ended the race 11 seconds behind defending national champion Brown, which wound up fourth and 17 seconds behind collegiate winner Michigan. The race started well for the Black and White, which kept up with Brown over the first half of the course. But after passing Weld...
Rossel was in her eighth year at Harvard. She recently completed her dissertation on the animal exploitation practices of two different communities in the Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites...
...freshmen Will Guzick and Alexei Chijoff-Evans also competed at the ITA Regionals. Ermakov, who was seeded 20th, defeated his second-round opponent from Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-0, 6-4, after a first-round bye, then lost in the third round, 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3, to eighth-seeded Mark Clemente of Columbia despite taking the first set. Guzick lost his first-round match and also suffered a defeat in the consolation bracket. However, he teamed with Clayton to advance to the quarterfinals in doubles, after defeating a pair from Yale, 8-5. Chijoff-Evans beat his first...
...while ideally parents should be responsible for transmitting information and values to their children, the school has a responsibility to children whose parents can't or won't do so. One committee member, Sarah Thompson, mother of an eighth grader, admitted that the proposal made her "uncomfortable," but she understood the need. "I know I've done my job as a parent," Thompson said. "[But there] may be a time when she doesn't feel comfortable coming to me [and] not all these kids have a strong parental advocate at home...
...week. Despite promises to the contrary, Musharraf was forced to use aircraft to bomb suspected militant hideouts, escalating the death toll and local anti-government rage. Some analysts are already calling the situation in North and South Waziristan, the locus of the fighting, a "civil war." On Friday, the eighth anniversary of Musharraf's coup, militants publicly beheaded six alleged criminals. A week before they executed three soldiers. "The situation in Waziristan is deteriorating rapidly," says Zafar Iqbal Cheema, chair of the Defense and Strategic Studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "The military has become so demoralized...