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...best weekend for meets that we’ve ever had, by far,” Harvard coach Stephanie Morawski said. Sophomores Kate Mills and Katherine Pickard led the way as nine school records fell, as the swimmers shared the pool with nationally-ranked competition at the annual Georgia Invitational.The divers stayed closer to home, competing at the Big Al Open in Princeton.GEORGIA INVITATIONALThe third year was the charm for the swimmers, as they had their fastest meet yet in Athens, Ga. Competing against No. 1 Georgia and No. 6 California, among other teams, the Crimson made its presence known...
...Harvard men’s swimming and diving team separated this past weekend, spanning the East Coast in search of Crimson victories. While the swimmers made the long trek to the University of Georgia for the Georgia Invitational, the Harvard divers traveled to Princeton to compete in their Ivy League nemesis’ home Big Al Invitational. The men’s swimming segment returned to Cambridge after its three-day contest with a second-place finish, while the divers left New Jersey with a solid eighth. GEORGIA INVITATIONAL The Harvard men’s swim team traveled south this...
...Russia is looking to the post-Georgia strategic environment, and the change of administration in Washington, as a moment to press forward with its own initiatives to reengineer the European security system along post-Cold War lines, eclipsing NATO, which is, after all, an institution based on Cold War strategic rivalry. On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev seemed to allude to skepticism Obama has expressed about the missile shield's effectiveness by calling on the new administration "to take constructive, reasonable stance, to show willingness to compromise on the most difficult issues." Moscow has also initiated a Europe-wide security...
...unabashedly smug about the outcome of the NATO summit that ended Wednesday in Brussels, where it was agreed to resume high-level relations with Moscow. Even though the NATO agreement specified a "measured and phased approach" to restoring ties - and insisted Moscow fulfill pledges to withdraw its forces in Georgia to pre-conflict positions - it was the Europeans' eclipse of Washington's harder line that Russian officials found most encouraging. (See pictures of Russia's military campaign in Georgia...
...Beverage protocols aside, Moscow was even more encouraged by the failure of the Bush Administration's final effort to persuade NATO to fast-track membership for Georgia and Ukraine. Russia is fiercely opposed to what it sees as the Alliance's "encroachment" into the territories of the old Russian empire, and when the U.S. had pushed in April for the adoption of a formal membership process for the two countries, the effort was rebuffed by France, Germany and Italy, among others. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried again last week week, with a round of intense lobbying ahead of what...