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...lightweights took fourth at Eastern Sprints in 2006 and fifth in 2007.Disappointing results at Eastern Sprints, however, yielded to excellence at IRAs, where the varsity lightweights have missed a gold medal by a combined 1.138 seconds in two seasons. Harvard earned silver both times, falling by the narrowest of margins to Cornell. Last year, they took home all three cups up for grabs in dual competition: the Biglin Bowl for wins over Dartmouth, the Haines Cup after sweeping the Navy lights in all three varsity races, and the Goldthwait Cup with a varsity win over Yale and Princeton. The lightweight...
...well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix). Drivers will be negotiating the 3.9-mile (6.2-km) Guia Circuit, which thankfully skirts the precarious old streets that date back to the Portuguese colonial era but nonetheless presents plenty of deceptive bends. It also tapers, at its narrowest point, to a mettle-testing 23 ft (7 m) across. While the final lineup is still being confirmed, if recent years are anything to go by, spectators can expect to see lots of rising stars of motor sport - 19 of this year's crop of Formula One drivers, for example...
...gender gap is narrowest in sectors that publicize information about starting salaries, according to research by Babcock and the Kennedy School’s Bowles. “So, one thing that career services [at Harvard] could do to help diminish the gap is to provide students with good information about the appropriate compensation standards for the types of jobs they are negotiating,” Bowles wrote in an e-mail...
...Tuesday Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, who lost the Presidential election by the narrowest of margins, headed a march in solidarity with the Oaxaca protesters in the capital, Mexico City. He joined the protesters in demanding the resignation of the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, who has taken a hard line against the protesters. Meanwhile, teachers' unions in other states in Mexico have thrown their support to the Oaxaca teachers. Mexico's President-elect Felipe Calder?n, who belongs to Fox's PAN party and takes office in December, has not openly embraced the embattled governor (whose party is allied with...
...coach] Harry Parker came up to some of the guys and said, ‘Congratulations, guys. That’s the bravest race I’ve ever seen rowed,’” Hafner says.The Crimson came up just 0.076 seconds short, falling in the narrowest of photo finishes to Cornell—the same crew that had turned Sprints into a lopsided race for second two weeks earlier. The Big Red had the advantage of racing in a longer boat, and the IRA officials had the unenviable task of awarding one gold medal into...