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...think we had more people at the margin about whom we really agonized,” he said. “I just thought we had good choices across the board, which, of course, made it painful to make the decisions...
...double-headers, going 6-5. Along with a winning record, the busy break also saw Harvard open league play against Princeton—the Crimson’s only Ivy challenge thus far. In close fights this past Sunday, the Tigers came out on top of a one-run margin in both games. The losses put Harvard at 0-2 in the league and 7-14 overall. After this week’s shifts, the team’s full schedule this month has little room for more rainouts. The Cornell contest will be Harvard’s first...
...Mirroring last year’s results, the Black and White surged to take the first three races of the day, as the third varsity four, the novice eight, and the second varsity eight rallied to make a claim to the cup with a 4.3 second margin. “I think as a team we were, in both boats, disappointed with how we rowed,” co-captain Katherine Woodman-Maynard said. Though the second varsity eight won its race, the close margin caused Stevens to take aggressive action in the boat. “The performance...
...scale of Ma's victory - he won by the largest margin in Taiwan's electoral history - provides him with the public backing to pursue his agenda with gusto. His mandate is a repudiation of the DPP's preference for a more distant relationship with China. Though Hsieh also favored expanding ties with China, the DPP and its supporters are far more wary of China and fear absorption by their giant neighbor. During the campaign, Hsieh attempted to paint Ma's plans as a route toward de facto unification. In the days before the vote, he tried to capitalize on Beijing...
...NATO missiles. And the Soviet Union needs to be persuaded that the West will not shrink from nuclear competition if its proposals for arms reductions are spurned. In a television address last week, Ronald Reagan confronted this complicated balancing act by graphically depicting what he claims is Moscow's "margin of superiority" while broaching a surprising and controversial idea for preventing nuclear...