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Brown's course features a steep and winding first mile, followed by a three-mile loop around a lake. Yesterday's meet "went out slow, but then picked up hard," according to Regan, who added that one of the team's goals has been to "move up the pack's pace," in preparation for the bigger meets later this month...
Crimson Captain Wiley McCarthy said "the team performed especially well as a group. It's hard to think of cross country as a team sport, but our pack running really worked well today." The women's 3.1 mile course was lined with cheering Harvard men who had just won their competition...
...depleted ranks of the Wehrmacht, the 15-year-old Kohl went through a basic training course in Bavaria. Advancing American troops brought his military career to an abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time as a stone polisher, he went on to earn a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg...
...course record with new mark of 17:50.46. The Mechanicsbury, Pa-freshman lived up to her sterling national ranking among cross country runners with a hard fought victory in humid, 70 degree weather. Dogging her every step was sophomore Jenny Stricker, who held on throughout the fully 3.1 mile course to finish second with a 17.52 clocking...
...Falklands, Argentine forces used their small but sophisticated electronic arsenal--most notably, the Exocet missile with its 45-mile range--to make England's victory a more narrow one than Israel's. Observers noted that the Falklands war was an old-style "slugfest," in which the British relied on sheer determination; but by contrast, Israel relied on its electronic weapons. Retired British Air Vice-Admiral Stewart Menaul summarized the difference between the conflicts: "We fought yesterday's war. The Israelis fought tomorrow...