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...Crimson lights, after surrendering a boatlength lead halfway through the race, started moving on the Engineers at the 1500-meter point. In the last 60 strokes Harvard increased its cadence and closed the gap--almost. "We just ran out of space," bow man Justin Kermond said yesterday. "In a tailwind situation like Saturday's it's a lot harder to catch a boat...
...halfway into both meets, there was very little question as to their outcome and thoughts began turning to future events. Both the men and women will enter the B.C. relays this week. Dolf Berle will enter the decathalon, while Patterson and co-captain Karen Gray will enter the pentathlon...
...fastest-growing proportion of users and, as of 1982, a majority of people who had tried cocaine were over 26. Nor does it seem that cocaine use has peaked. Says Thomas B. Kirkpatrick, executive director of the Illinois dangerous drugs commission: "My guess is that we're only halfway there. I would say the use of cocaine will double in the U.S. before we see any decline in its popularity...
...Halfway up this grim parapet of fate is a scooped-out ledge, a pocket of tenuous survival, where two men lie panting for breath. Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times...
...Since the system makes us oppressors, no halfway effort to change the system, which cooperates with some of the values of that system, could ever...