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Prior to last year’s championship regatta, both Harvard and Yale traditionally skipped the event to train for their grueling four-mile season-ending dual, but a change in the Bulldogs’ coaching staff led to the abandonment of that policy and both teams participated in the 2003 competition. And judging by the way they’ve responded, it seems the Crimson rowers don’t mind all that much...
...another is surprisingly useful. So in mid-May, Mayor Darwin Hindman, who at 71 still bikes to work, kicked off Bike, Walk and Wheel Week to coax residents to commute and shop without cars. Mayor Hindman and local Congressman Kenny Hulshof led dozens of cyclists on a 4-mile ride. A week later, volunteers were serving breakfast all over town for anyone walking, cycling or rolling in a wheelchair...
Iraqis have a strong sense of irony - every discussion about politics or economics in this country seems to begin with a sardonic or mordant observation: Isn't it odd that a nation with the world's second-largest oil reserves should also have mile-long queues at gas stations? Isn't it strange that the Americans, who made such a big deal of Saddam Hussein's treatment of prisoners, brutalized their own Iraqi captives in Abu Ghraib...
...Armada Before the invasion, 200 ships bombarded the landing zones. Then more than 130,000 men streamed ashore along a 50-mile (80 km) front...
...even vendors who sell food and trinkets outside the mosque walls. As prayers draw to an end, the gunfire and occasional loud explosion seem to be getting closer. As soon as they finish, the Mahdi militia looses a salvo of Katyusha rockets at the U.S. base less than a mile away...