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Harvard finished 4-1 in Sunday morning Silver Fleet competition to qualify, along with Dartmouth, for the six-team championship tournament...
Sailors broke from the team racing that has been the focus of the spring season with the Truxtun Umstead, a four-division fleet racing regatta. The A- and B-division sailed in two-person, full-rigged 420-class and Flying Junior dinghies, while the C- and D-divisions sailed single-handed Lasers and Laser radials...
...Most fleet racing regattas feature two divisions, and the four-boat format rewards teams with a broad talent base...
...ways, betting it could force Taiwan to capitulate quickly without a bloody invasion?though that option isn't off the table. An estimated 600 ballistic missiles have been amassed within range of Taiwan. To impose a blockade of the island and deter intervention by the U.S. Seventh Fleet, Beijing has also expanded its submarine fleet, purchasing diesel subs from Russia, which is its main weapons supplier, and producing its own diesel-powered Song-class subs; military analysts expect the Chinese to possess about 85 submarines by 2010, a third more than...
...Nothing galvanizes politicians like a new military threat, however. The antisecession law appears to have muted objections to the U.S. arms deal. Taiwan should eventually be able to augment its tiny submarine fleet, and add more Patriot antimissile batteries and antisub aircraft. The hardware won't be enough to win an arms race, but it sends a signal that Taiwan is prepared to stand up for itself...