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...battle in the icy chop of the Charles River Basin. The coxswains’ cries for pressure and precision were audible despite the howling tailwind. And cheers for respective crews echoed from the Mass. Ave Bridge to the battlefield below. But, midway through combat, a piercing crack of hull against hull rattled the air and left one brigade of oarsmen sinking to the icy depths while the other advanced victorious...
Harvard continued on its course, the hull structurally unaffected by the blow. The varsity won the Compton Cup in a time of 5:53.01. The Engineers followed in 6:19.08, and the Tigers did not finish...
...weather appeared to have caused the death of one rescue diver, the South Korean military temporarily halted its search for 46 missing sailors from the Cheonan, a 1,200-ton naval ship that sank in the Yellow Sea on March 26 after an explosion ripped a hole in its hull. Despite initial suspicion of North Korean involvement, authorities have deferred judgment until the ship is recovered...
...Harvard is going to keep up with Massachusetts’ high scoring offense, it will likely need to amass more than the nine goals it managed against the Crusaders. That means the rest of the attack—junior Matt Hull, sophomores Kevin Vaughn and Dan McDermott, and a group of freshman—will need to bring their best efforts...
...ordinary smuggling bust. On Dec. 11, an old Russian plane landed in Thailand to refuel after taking off hours earlier from Pyongyang, North Korea. In its hull, police found 35 tons of explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and components for surface-to-air missiles, all being transported from North Korea in breach of U.N. sanctions. The captain and his crew were promptly arrested and charged with illegally transporting arms. But according to experts, they were only tiny cogs in a global network for arms trafficking that feeds off the castaway pilots and planes of the former Soviet Union. Suspected smugglers like...