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...This early success catapulted the crew to a No. 4 national ranking, as Radcliffe made its first trip south to Camden to face perennial contenders Stanford and Wisconsin for the Knecht Cup. The varsity eight boat smoked all three Wisconsin boats that earned a berth in the Grand Final, pulling up just four seconds behind first-place Stanford. Remarkably, the second varsity eight boat qualified for the Grand Final as well.“Even though Princeton wasn’t there, it was a great race,” Ford said. “Our two boats finished within...
...Core Curriculum’s five-year review approaches, it may seem that the Faculty, the University community in general, and a good portion of the national press have already said all there is to say about Harvard’s grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that...
...notion of the greater glory of god does not mean one god in one way,” he said. “Harvard should keep alive a grand, universal tradition in the realm of religion...
Among the other laureled films were two from Italy: Matteo Garrone's remorseless Gomorrah (the Grand Prize, or second place), about a Mafia clan's reach throughout the country, and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (the third-place Jury Prize), a snazzy-looking, corrosively cynical biopic of three-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. When he was shown the film before Cannes, Andreotti called it "the act of a scoundrel." After Il Divo won its prize, he took the longer view. "For anybody in politics, it seems to me, to be ignored is worse than to be criticized," he said, adding...
...kill innocent Americans and praised the lunatic murderer Charles Manson. In 1981 two policemen and a security guard were killed in the botched holdup of a Brinks truck. Fake IDs used to rent getaway cars in an earlier robbery had been traced to a store where Dohrn worked. A grand jury wanted her testimony. She refused. Said she didn't believe in grand juries. Spent seven months in jail, and then the matter was dropped. Other charges against Ayers and Dohrn were dropped because the evidence was tainted by the Nixon Administration's illegal wiretaps. Ayers put it well: "Guilty...