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...second and third varsity eights both finished second, behind Cornell, in their races. The first freshman eight won its race, while the second freshman eight placed second, also behind Cornell...
...second race of the day, against Georgetown and Columbia, Harvard’s varsity eight finished in first-place, with a time of 6:14.5, ahead of second-place Georgetown by more than four seconds. Columbia finished the race in third-place, but was 25 seconds off the Crimson’s winning time...
...Harvard’s second varsity eight, the race results were nearly identical to the first team’s. The Crimson won the race in 6:10.2, which was, once again, four seconds better than Georgetown and 25 seconds better than Columbia...
...story. The space program received around $40 billion a year (adjusted for inflation) in the mid-1960s, which was at least four percent of the federal budget. But, back then, Americans also had a much greater tolerance for risk: The first successful Apollo mission was launched just eight months after the three astronauts in Apollo 1 died during testing. NASA’s tighter leash today means that riskier programs like nuclear-powered spacecraft don’t make it off the drawing board. Ultimately, NASA’s 1960s miracles were enabled by widespread public and congressional support fueled...
...early March, 38 members of the U.S. Congress sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton highlighting the fact that Sri Lanka is one of eight “Red Alert” countries experiencing ongoing or imminent genocide, referencing a ranking produced by the New York-based Genocide Prevention Project. Human Rights Watch had reported that, from early January to the end of February alone, over 2,000 Tamil civilians had been killed and over 7,000 injured. More recently, government forces continue to kill or maim an average of 100 civilians...