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Many of the teams at the New England divisional meet, including Crimson victim Connecticut College, are in their water polo programs' maiden voyages. Connecticut College's major selling point on the weekend was not as much its team as the first tournament hosted in its new state-of-the-art facility. Gordon Natatorium features a separate shallow warm-up area in addition to its all-deep-water polo section...
...Saturday, Rout's play was Unshaded, a 3-year-old who won a maiden special weight race Jan. 29 at Gulfstream and bumped up in class to this $36,000 allowance race. Rout was positively prescient in his analysis: "I like the way that No. 9 Unshaded broke his maiden over seven furlongs last time, and think that the extra three-sixteenths of a mile will suit him perfectly. There is every reason to be confident that he will improve here. I would say that if he goes off at 5-2 or a little better he is worth taking...
Tehran's response? Chillier than a maiden with an unwanted suitor. "There has been very little coming back," laments a senior Clinton aide. Iranian officials have dismissed Washington's feelers, arguing that crushing economic sanctions are still in place. CIA director George Tenet warned this month that Iran "remains the most active state sponsor" of terrorism and could test a long-range missile "in the next few years" that could reach...
...past semester was the maiden voyage of the Quantitative Reasoning area of the Core Curriculum, a replacement for the infamous statistics test of yore. It seems too early to judge the success of a Core area in which only six classes were offered this year and which is expected to double in size in coming years...
...classes offered during the sub-field's maiden semester covered topics ranging from health care economics to deductive logic. About 170 students enrolled in the courses...