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...Stonehurst victory for the Crimson. Facing a strong headwind, the Crimson eight shared the lead with Brown throughout the first mile of the three-mile course but pulled away in the later two-thirds of the head race. A minor seat malfunction with 30 seconds remaining allowed Brown to gain a length on the first-place Harvard boat. The Crimson overcame the equipment breakage within three strokes, however, and secured the George M. Angle Cup in the crew’s first fall competition. Harvard will next be in action on Oct. 22 for the 41st annual Head...
...Ministry has enjoyed less clout because it was held by minority parties of the governing coalition (current foreign minister Joschka Fischer, of the Green Party, being the most recent example). With the post in the hands of a major party within a grand coalition, the position is expected to gain in influence...
Defusing groups like the Salah ed-Din Brigades won't be easy. Unlike Hamas, they have no political program that Abbas can negotiate over. Abu Samhadana says his "main priority" is to gain sinecures for his men in the Palestinian Authority's security forces. So far, he has been offered jobs for 500. That's not enough, he says, and complains that the remaining 1,500 "will be like the rest of the Palestinian people--unemployed." The town of Rafah is particularly desperate: it has a 66% unemployment rate, compared with 25% among Palestinians in general...
...over the narrative drive. But at least Haspiel has plenty of opportunities to display his chops in depicting fight scenes. Longtime fans may be shocked to discover what a scrapper the younger Pekar was. A large part of the book explores his use of violence as a way to gain respect and attention from his peers, something he felt he never got from his parents. Other, ultimately self-defeating behaviors also manifest themselves. His drive to excel at everything eventually makes Pekar so deeply fearful of failure that he quits anything that challenges him: school sports, the navy and college...
...section met at 10 a.m., class participation was off the charts: everyone had a literate and informed opinion as to what disastrous effects Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele were wreaking upon modern society. But when the TF asked what the “purely hypothetical” reader might gain from such a novel, the 15-person section abruptly fell silent. Ten audible ticks of the second-hand later, one of the bolder sophomores admitted, “Well, they’re titillating...