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...morning head race, it took a little while for us to find a good rhythm,” Finelli said. “By the time we were way down, we were trying to fend off Cornell. We were rowing pretty well by the middle mile, but towards the third mile, we were getting a little tired and were still fending off Cornell...
...time there and the lessons he learned, his humanity spilled out and he spoke as someone who lost a cherished friend in Massoud. He discussed the “patchwork quilt of control” in Afghanistan and how the United States left the country to rot and fend for itself after the Russians pulled out in the 1980s: “We supported the war, but not the peace.” Junger now sees his tour as a chance to bridge the two cultures...
...draped across six of the NYSE’s Corinthian columns, a line of people waiting for the markets to open presented a unique Wall Street sight: the suited brokers clutche steaming coffees in one hand and cell phones in the other, plotting stock strategy through surgical masks to fend off the soot and smoke that still fogged...
...Cappella Jam—a Freshman Week institution which draws droves of first-years to hear Harvard’s singing groups perform—was shaped by a Crimson Key Society push to shorten the evening, leaving one regular member of the a capella scene to fend for itself in its efforts to gain name recognition from the Class...
...Cincinnati's most important mayoral contest in decades. The city is still trying to recover from the riots that broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...