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...calendar system in place. However, just as yesterday’s clear skies and warm weather provided students with a respite before winter weather and finals season, the Crimson competed in its one and only weekend of fall team racing before next weekend’s fleet-style Atlantic Coast Championships...
Well, this was a big surprise. Despite the House's reputation for being one of the worst Houses (this blog ranked it as junk last year), the gym is actually quite legit. The Dunster House gym consists of three separate squash courts: one is populated with a fleet of six ergs, another is a cardio room, and the third is a weightlifting room. So what Lowell House tries to do in one squash court, Dunster does in three. The rooms are also clearly labeled...
...mean they can envisage him in high office: 43% of respondents to the conservativehome.com survey felt Johnson wouldn't be a credible candidate for Prime Minister. There are signs, too, that the Johnsonian charm may be wearing thin on some Londoners - even the drivers of the capital's fleet of black taxis, once BoJo's most passionate advocates, who complain that he has yet to deliver on campaign pledges to get London's clogged streets moving again. After some high-profile actions early in his term - including the ouster of Metropolitan police chief Sir Ian Blair, the banning of alcohol...
...first comprehensive account of this vast operation in 20 years. It's an imposing volume: Beevor, author of The Fall of Berlin 1945 and Stalingrad, deftly marshals vast tranches of information with his customary unflappability. Just crossing the English Channel involved assembling almost 5,000 vessels, the largest fleet in history. Although Beevor had access to a great deal of new material, there are no major revelations in D-Day. But it contains some surprises...
...full fleet of funerary boats, the symbolic transportation to the afterlife, appears in the exhibition. Each small vessel is about two feet long and carries something different: transport boats have portable cabins in which Djehutynakt could sit; on a fowling boat, one slave steers, while another throws out a net to catch marsh birds...