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...relaxed guy most of the time—guys on the team have a lot of respect for him as a coach.” Since coming to Cambridge, Overington has experienced first hand the ups and downs of collegiate rowing—the team finished second at the IRA National Championships for two years in a row before failing to even field a varsity eight at nationals last spring. “We had some great races in my sophomore year,” Overington said. “We were able to continually improve through the year...
...Radcliffe lightweight crew is a program in flux.A team that had consistently won medals at the IRA National Championships, notching a bronze medal as recently as 2006, has fallen short over the past two years.In 2007, the crew’s varsity eight fell just off the medal stand, losing to a suprise Bucknell boat, which won the gold. The team was just four seconds short of third, ending the crew’s six-year run of medaling.Last spring, the program fell to a sixth- place finish, as Wisconsin regained its national championship crown.In order to respond, the crew...
...bombs can change the course of history. Many believe that the IRA's 1993 truck bomb attack in in Bishopsgate, the center of London's financial district, helped convince Britain to seek a political settlement with the IRA. In 2005, a former Lebanese prime minister in 2005 was killed by a car bomb that provoked a cascade of events that led to Hizballah becoming the de facto sovereign authority in Lebanon. Or, on a happier side, the sharp drop off in car-bombs in Iraq has averted a civil war. And the Oklahoma City truck bombing effectively destroyed the right...
...federal appeals court should have gone even further and reprimanded the Administration for treating Posada like an immigration scofflaw instead of a man widely considered an international terrorist. "I worry that these cases... have the tendency to make very bad law," says Miami attorney and immigration law expert Ira Kurzban. The U.S., he insists, shouldn't be "willing to tolerate terrorists as long as they are your friends...
...Home Secretary Robert Peel (two slang terms for cops - "bobbies" and "peelers" - derive from his name), the Met has provided the model for city forces around the globe. It pioneered fingerprint technology and DNA evidence, and its experience in combatting terrorism stretches back to the campaigns waged by the IRA and the Angry Brigade - a tiny gang that went on a bombing spree in the early '70s. Even the criminal classes seem to have a grudging respect for the Met. Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner since 2005, recalls a 1980s research trip to San Francisco when he joined...