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First-years skipper Sam Millham and crew Jinyan Zang finished 10th in the A-division of racing, while fellow rookies skipper Nick Waldo and crew Lauren Tiedemann placed eighth in the B-division...
Because Cambridge has no standalone middle schools, most students attend sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at one of the city’s 11 K-8 schools...
Adam Ferguson's excellent photography brought it all back home [Oct. 12]. Medevacs removing the wounded, sentries monitoring the perimeter, soldiers shaving with whatever was available--Vietnam all over again. Until the U.S. leadership looks at our history, we will never learn from our mistakes. I was in the eighth grade when the first Tennessee soldier was killed in Vietnam in 1962, and 10 years later I was fortunate to return from service with the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam. Let's hope the decision makers review Ferguson's work while examining the war in Afghanistan...
...Winthrop House, an airplane. I would estimate my total losses of umbrellas in the last 10 years to be roughly 15. God only knows how many I lost as a baby. Some of them were really special, too—one that I’d had since eighth grade, and fondly called “Ducky,” featured a duck’s head as the handle. Ducky’s glass eyes were cracked and the red paint had chipped off his beak by last year, but I still cherished him. He was the A-entryway...
...enough, we can add yet another item to the list of areas of life supposedly improved by the "Obama effect": press freedom. Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard credits the President with the U.S.'s jump from 36th place to 20th in this year's eighth annual world press freedom index. Atop the list, which is compiled based on questionnaires completed by hundreds of media experts and journalists worldwide, are a Scandinavian quartet - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - and Ireland. The bottom three spots are occupied by Turkmenistan (173rd), North Korea (174th) and, for the third...