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...were at risk before Iraq, and the threat will likely persist for as long as we can envisage. Is ASIO doing enough to keep Australia secure? The job of security intelligence is never finished. [After a bomb attack that nearly killed then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,] the IRA said: "We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky all the time." That is the problem with the struggle against terrorism. It is never-ending...
...team.”Harvard traditionally focuses its efforts on the championship four and championship eight events, with the four usually occupied by seniors or the members with the most varsity experience. Other collegiate programs—notably Cal, last year’s national champion, and Princeton, the IRA silver medalist—stack the championship eight event with their varsity eights.The University of Washington was the first collegiate boat to finish in the championship eight event, coming in with a time of 14:21.917—just 11 seconds off the pace of the winning US national...
Every sports fan has said it. Every sane human has mocked its truth. But everyone still wants to believe it: this is the year.The Radcliffe varsity lightweights are no different. But after three straight third-place finishes at the IRA National Championships and the loss of two standout captains from a year ago—Ashley Antony ’06 and Sarah Bates ’06—the road to satisfying this goal looks more difficult than ever for the Black and White.“We think of the loss of those two captains...
...October—decidedly a month of neutrality in the collegiate rowing world, when distance is measured in miles and productivity is measured in months, not meters. Any talk of potential springtime achievements is quickly silenced by the impending winter, one that promises to mute all IRA speculation until the warmer days of early March begin to thaw the Charles. So it is that in October, the past often does the talking. But the Harvard varsity lightweights, left without IRA gold medals for three consecutive years, have found little solace in recollection.In Newell Boathouse, the current Crimson varsity lightweights with...
...added to an already frustrating dual season wrought with inconsistency and underachievement. It wasn’t until June, until the last strokes of the 2006 season, that the Crimson showed how far it had come on a Saturday afternoon in Camden. Far enough to make the 2006 lightweight IRA final the most thrilling in recent memory. And close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even more important for those who came 0.076 seconds short a season ago. “We thought we’d won—we were one seat...