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...squad took 10th place at the Gill Co-ed National Championship hosted by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The Crimson finished in sixth place in B-division and 11th in A, earning 301 total points, just 34 fewer than Hobart/William Smith in 11th place. College of Charleston was crowned as the 2007 national champions, beating Dartmouth in a one-point nail-biter...
...area that comprises about 70 million people living in nine countries bordering the sea. Established players like Sweden and Finland are pairing up with emerging economies (and recent E.U. inductees) like Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to transform a region once better known for herring, bad weather and cold war naval maneuvers into a global economic dynamo. "It's a hot spot for growth," says Peter Egardt, a Swede who heads the Business Advisory Council at the intergovernmental Council of Baltic Sea States...
...American diplomat is dismissive. "The notion that we're going to build a base on São Tomé, like Guantánamo or Diego Garcia, is unrealistic," he says, but he adds that the U.S. is talking to several countries around the region about a permanent U.S. naval presence. The formation of Africom, a separate African command that's currently based in Germany, is another sign of Washington's increased focus on security in West Africa. "The question," says the diplomat, "is how do you secure these shipping lanes, these oil platforms, in an area where the Africans...
...over his guest lists. President Bill Clinton fought subpoenas for months before turning over records of his meetings in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. A Secret Service spokeswoman wouldn't say how the agency handled visitor logs for previous occupants of the vice presidential residence, a sprawling estate at the Naval Observatory in Washington. A spokesman for the Vice President said the records will be preserved as presidential documents...
...Given these rising tensions, what hope is there for a successful diplomatic exchange between the U.S. and Iran next week in Baghdad? "There are powerful forces pushing the two parties into these talks," says Dr. William Samii, a longtime Iran specialist currently with the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded non-profit. "But there may be even stronger pressures that will make agreement difficult to reach...