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...competition against skilled teams outside Harvard’s northeast base in the Charleston Team Race Intersectionals, the Crimson took home a second-place finish. In fact, since the sailing season resumed in early February, Harvard has taken first or second place in every regatta in which it has competed...
AFGHANISTAN Troubles Heaped on Troubles As if the poor inhabitants of the war-ravaged and drought-stricken country didn't have enough to contend with, the very earth turned against Afghanistan last week. Two earthquakes, measuring between 5.0 and 6.1 on the Richter scale, caused widespread destruction in the northeast around Nahrin, killing up to 1,200 people. Though aftershocks continued for several days, troops and aid workers were able to deliver relief supplies of food and tents to the tens of thousands left homeless...
...reform its industry brought thousands of workers onto the streets in the rust-belt cities of Daqing and Liaoyang to protest stopped wages and welfare benefits. Hundreds of armed police ringed Liaoyang's government offices and arrested three labor leaders who tried to arrange talks with officials. The whole northeast region is suffering massive unemployment as the state closes down inefficient and outdated factories...
...those. I wanted to travel to the farthest reaches of Great Britain, far away from Stonehenge and Loch Ness. I traced my finger on the map and landed on the Shetland Isles, an archipelago that lies at the intersection of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, 180 miles northeast of Scotland...
...there was a time, before I knew anyone from points south and west of Pennsylvania, when the very idea of Garth Brooks was enough to make a haughty sniff rise in my northeast coast nose. Country music of any kind was considered by my friends and neighbors to be déclassé and faintly ridiculous— the music of rednecks and trailer-park dwellers and yes, Republicans...