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Radcliffe lightweight crew battled to live up to the high expectations that haunt a top-five nationally ranked crew stacked with young talent. The Black and White held its own in the East and heads to Camden, N.J. this weekend to cap the season at the IRA National Championships.“The team was adjusting to a new coach, and a few injuries kept some of our very strong rowers out of action this year, which is unfortunate since last year’s freshman boat was so strong,” senior Naomi Ford said...
...opposed to the red-meat Hollywood variety, is a left-wing enterprise. At Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees...
Looking ahead, Radcliffe will knuckle down after exam period is over for the athletes, take the next two weeks and concentrate on finding the speed they need to succeed at IRA National Championships. June 5-7 the squad will return for the Cooper River looking for vindication...
...face of so much need, too often comes denial. At a May 6 hearing, lawmakers lit into officials from Veterans Affairs after an e-mail surfaced from Ira Katz, its chief of mental health, on suicide rates of soldiers in its care. The subject line: "Shhh." The VA had been insisting there were fewer than 800 suicide attempts a year by vets in its care; the real number was closer to 12,000. "Is this something we should (carefully) address ourselves in some sort of release before someone stumbles on it?" Katz asked. Bob Filner, chair of the House Committee...
...Song of Solomon should be required reading for all African-American boys. How did you know what is in our heads? -Ira Levi, Tulsa, Okla.That was a leap for me. I really wanted to do that book, about the education of a middle-class black man, about his ancestry, and I couldn't. And then my father died, and it was earthshaking for me. I remember saying to myself, I wonder what my father knew about these men? And I have to tell you, I felt access. I knew I could get there if I thought about...