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...boat length. The second varsity rallied, and after making a strong move, came from behind to win once again.In the afternoon, Radcliffe added Notre Dame to the list of first varsity victims with an eight-second win over Dartmouth and a 19-second margin of victory over the Fighting Irish. The second varsity followed suit with the victory but bested the Midwestern visitor by only one second. The novice eight was dominant for a second time, enjoying an 11-second lead over second place.The next weekend, the heavyweights travelled to the Housatonic River to face Ivy rival Yale and southern...
Mixing alcohol, a depressant, with stimulants is nothing new. The Irish have their eponymous coffee, and any authentic Italian restaurant offers something called caffè corretto, a shot of espresso mixed with a shot of grappa or sambuca. (The wonderfully knowing name translates as "corrected coffee.") But alcoholic energy drinks are different because they are so obviously marketed to kids. Ads are found mainly online or in publications like Blender. The Sparks website looks like it was designed by a (very young, very Flash-savvy) student...
...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 in 1982, was one of the critical favorites in the main competition, though Penn's jury gave it no award...
...Cologne, Bono and his fellow Irish rocker Bob Geldof had an audience with Blair. Bono says that Blair was "the first head of state with whom we didn't have to argue that debt cancellation was not about charity, but justice." (Campbell remembers the meeting a little differently. Blair, he writes in his diaries, said debt relief was like Mount Everest. Bono replied, "When you see Everest, Tony, you don't look at it, you f___ing climb it.") I had breakfast with Blair in his hotel room the next morning, anxious to know how the talks on Kosovo...
...Blair's faith took on an extra dimension when he met and married Cherie Booth-like him, a young lawyer-after graduating. Blair's wife is a devout Catholic; not a posh Catholic, but a Liverpool-Irish, working-class, convent-educated girl with cousins who became priests. In her recent memoir, Cherie makes plain the centrality of religion to their relationship. Of the young Blair, she says, "Religion was more important to him than anyone I had ever met outside the priesthood." She and Blair would spend hours "talking about God and what we were here...