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Despite the disappointment of the agonizingly close loss, Radcliffe turned in an overall positive performance, earning some glory with a hard-earned third-place Knecht Cup finish against some of the top women’s lightweight crews...
...Black and White began the weekend looking relatively strong, finishing Saturday’s lightweight eight heat in second place with a time of 8:01.6. This performance was bested only by the rival Tigers, which won the heat with a time of 7:51.8, arriving at the finish nearly 10 seconds before Radcliffe, leaving the Black and White with a deficit to overcome by Sunday...
...Radcliffe lightweight four had a somewhat less dramatic Sunday, finding itself out of action after finishing second-to-last in their qualifying heat the day before. The Black and White finished well out of the top two, 1:15.02 behind the first-place Princeton ‘A’ boat and about 30 seconds behind the Georgetown ‘A’ vessel, and did not receive a berth in the grand finals. Radcliffe missed making the petite finals by a little less than six seconds...
...other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations of multiplying cases of rape and pedophilia committed by U.N. troops the world over. To dismiss Havel as a no-name lightweight compared to Annan, as you do in your otherwise well-reasoned editorial supporting John Lithgow ’67, is a disgrace not only to liberals and victims of the U.N. in particular but also to all your readers...
...huge creature had to be remarkably light for its size, possibly only about 140 Ibs. Its wing bones were hollow tubes, and its body structure must have evolved for minimum weight. To emulate nature, MacCready's design team is using strong but lightweight parts made of carbon-fiber tubing and Kevlar cloth...