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...Bowdoin. The Eagles failed to lose a race all day en route to the first-place finish, while the Jumbos’ 6-4 mark was good enough for second, with the Crimson finishing third at 4-6. A lack of experience sailing together didn’t hamper the team’s performances.“It was definitely a team without a lot of team racing experience,” senior crew Mallory Greimann said. “But it was good for developing our skills, and the conditions on were nice.”Freshman skipper...
Summers said that an excess of investor enthusiasm in world financial markets can ultimately hamper development. “You could say that the main thing we have to fear is the lack of fear itself,” Summers said. CLOSING...
...demonstrate similar “compassion” for all Massachusetts families victimized by drunk driving, then it is grossly inappropriate for him to do so only when the family involved happens to be politically and personally connected to him. Furthermore, even if Reilly never directly intended to hamper the investigation, his request could only have injured it. The attorney general is the ranking law enforcement official in the Commonwealth, and any request he makes of a subordinate carries considerable clout. Reilly may or may not have intended to close the case against Berberian, but he is at the very...
...present their views without fearing constant disruptions and disrespectful behavior. We strongly condemn the actions of a vocal minority of protestors, many of whom were from Harvard Students for Israel (HSI), at Thursday’s event, who through constant shouting and vocal harassment were clearly aiming to hamper campus discourse. While HSI vouches that this was not a pre-meditated effort to disrupt Finkelstein’s speech, it indeed had the effect of doing so. Those protestors should have remained subdued until the question-and-answer session, at which time tough questions could be posed to the speaker...
...year’s incarnation should suffer from the graduation of its superstar quarterback, several key starters on defense, and its top special-teamer. Plus the spate of injuries, the hyper-informed fan might deduce, on both sides of the ball and the unhealthy dependence on the tailback would hamper the Crimson’s chances in 2005. In this confusion, I decided to poll a random sampling of the freshman class, the nubile, the predominantly uninitiated, presumably possessing a representative pre-arrival familiarity with the trivia. I e-mailed 32 first-years with 10 three-choice questions...