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...Radcliffe heavyweight crew team raced its varsity eight and second varsity eight in the regatta, and both teams fought off strong competition to reach their respective final races on Sunday. The varsity eight finished fifth, and Delgado rowed with the second varsity eight to secure a sixth-place finish...
...organization is led by Isa Munayev, a Chechen military commander who fought against the Russians during the two Chechen wars of the 1990s, which killed tens of thousands of people. Since then, the group has chosen nonviolent resistance from abroad as a way of achieving its goal of winning independence for the Caucasus. But they still maintain contacts with the leaders of the violent insurgency at home, including the fighters loyal to the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov...
Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history--say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements--it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school...
...doctrinal office thought it wiser that church authorities in Wisconsin simply restrict Murphy's ministry and require him to take responsibility for his actions. Lombardi pointed out that earlier charges brought against Murphy by civil authorities were eventually dropped and insisted that, despite the Times allegation that the Vatican fought to keep the Murphy details confidential, the Holy See's rules did not require that such cases be kept secret. (See "The Father Cutié Scandal: Sex and the Single Priest...
Adventurous excursions aside, it was business as usual for Harvard, as the women took the field for exhibition contests against three Italian teams—ASD Mozzanica, ACF Firenze, and Cervia. The Crimson lost a hard-fought match to Cervia but picked up 2-1 wins against Mozzanica and Firenze...