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Harvard’s top sailors competed this weekend at the 29th Marchiando and 50th Friis Trophies Team Races and came away victors of the second fleet of racing, or in ninth position overall. The Crimson also sent a contingent to the Longfellow Bridge Invitational, the fourth installment of the Central Series this spring season, and finished sixth out of 16 teams...
...learns that it is important to find ways other than constantly complaining in order to find a solution to a problem. Apparently, that message didn’t make its way into the sailing world since 35 protests were filed over the course of Sunday’s Gold Fleet races at Connecticut College. But the Crimson was able to navigate its way through the chaos to post a satisfying 6-8 record in the Gold Fleet races, earning sixth place overall...
...order to advance to Sunday’s Gold Fleet, Harvard first had to finish in the top four at Coast Guard Academy on Saturday, and it proved its mettle. The two-day competition was set up such that half the teams raced at Connecticut College while the other half simultaneously competed at Coast Guard Academy on Saturday. The top four finishers at each site would race the next day in the Gold Fleet at Connecticut College, while the other schools competed at the same time in the Silver Fleet at the Academy...
...accepted by suppliers in Europe and the Far East." However, he says, much of the trade can now go directly from Asian suppliers to Iran's Bandar Abbas port, without passing through Dubai at all. Iran's government-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, or IRISL, has a fleet of vessels that go directly to Iran's ports from cities around China and Korea, as well as the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. So, even if the Dubai route was choked off, Tehran may yet have alternatives less vulnerable to U.S. pressure...
...Unfortunately, the Pentagon thinks a threat is a terrible thing to waste, so the Navy has begun studying how to protect its fleet from such an attack. "A nuclear device detonated at an altitude in excess of 40 miles generates High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), which is the focus of the U.S. Navy program," a recent Pentagon report says. Doing nothing, it warns, poses a risk "at the highest level." Hemp and high? You can't say the Navy doesn't have a sense of humor...