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...crew Kerry Anne Bradford.The tandem was able to record four top-five finishes, but finished 13th in the division.Yale was the regatta’s overall winner, followed closely by St. Mary’s and MIT.MOSBACHER-KNAPP TROPHIESThe women’s team was challenged at the Yale-hosted Mosbacher-Knapp Trophies, sailing in heavy winds against co-ed competition.“It was a higher level of competition than we’re used to. Every single boat on the starting line was very good,” junior captain Megan Watson said...
...Crimson’s only loss of the Mercer Easter Classic came in its fourth and final game—the championship game. The host squad earned a shutout victory in an eight-inning affair...
...addition to advertising in the Hispanic media, Fox Searchlight launched a grass roots marketing campaign. The company partnered with Jarritos, a Mexican soda drink, to host 55 screenings in 11 cities, hit more than 20 film festivals and gave out 30,000 phone cards with the film on them, telling audiences that if they liked the movie, call someone and tell them about it. They also screened the film for the Congressional Hispanic caucus, Hispanic church leader Sam Rodriguez and some service workers' unions...
Washington Memo Several State Department workers and contractors stirred national controversy by snooping through the confidential passport records of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. But beyond those high-profile intrusions is a much larger government push to make everyone's passport data more readily accessible to a host of federal agencies. The same database that the prying workers peered into is being opened up to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and other federal bureaucracies. The stated aim: To tap into the records "for counterterrorism and other purposes such as border security...
Perhaps the temptation to declaim on such a grand stage is too much to resist. And because the Olympics have become a sort of debutante ball for nations entering the global lite, governments must ask whether mere attendance confers a stamp of approval on the host. The boycott logic is easy enough to follow...