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...regime, closing down a major state sponsor of terror, shutting off Saddam Hussein's practice of making payments to the families of suicide bombers--we've done good work to get this far. We've got more to do. It's going to be tough to finish the task, but I think it's very important that we complete the task...
Every sports fan has said it. Every sane human has mocked its truth. But everyone still wants to believe it: this is the year.The Radcliffe varsity lightweights are no different. But after three straight third-place finishes at the IRA National Championships and the loss of two standout captains from a year ago—Ashley Antony ’06 and Sarah Bates ’06—the road to satisfying this goal looks more difficult than ever for the Black and White.“We think of the loss of those two captains...
...wish I had known that then. I thought it was the third 500—we took a 20 into the third 500 and then we just smoked the crap out of them.”The middle may have been a little murky, but the finish was emphatic. The Crimson rolled to an open water win over second-place George Washington, securing a national title in an open weight race for the first time.“Most of the crowd couldn’t believe it,” says coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson...
...learned our lesson the hard way last year,” captain Nick Downing says. “In March and April, it wasn’t quite going our way, and we weren’t being very positive.” A fourth-place finish at Sprints for both varsity eights left even more in doubt, as the Crimson failed to reach the winners’ dock after a one-two varsity sweep in 2005.But in the two weeks separating Sprints from IRAs, the Crimson settled into permanent lineups. Stability replaced unpredictability, and a new attitude overtook Newell...
...Students don’t have to finish it in one sitting,” Gross said...