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...Saturday and Sunday, and, keeping with the theme of the weekend, the home school sailed well, as the No. 5 Seahawks finished second in the field, behind No. 3 College of Charleston. Conditions were optimum for the races—a welcome change from the cold of the Northeast. “It was a beautiful weekend, with a really nice breeze,” senior skipper Jessica Baker said. “We did some things really well, but also some things not so well.” Baker and freshman crew Lauren Brants earned the B division...
...Around Marovo lagoon near an oil-palm plantation at Merusu, in the New Georgia island group, some 230 km northeast of Honiara, crude shanties of chainsaw-cut planks line the side of a wharf built from old logs, off-cuts, rocks and mud. The plantation is run by Malaysia's Silvania company; environmentalists say it is a front for a logging concern. The muddy village echoes with the sound of saws chewing through giant tree trunks. Until a few months ago, 16-year-old Leslie Pua called one of these shanties home, sharing a room with her eight siblings. Then...
...tournament Title with a 6-2 defeat of Cornell in Albany’s Pepsi Arena, the Harvard men’s hockey team learned that it will travel right back to New York’s capital for the opening round of the NCAA tournament’s Northeast regional next weekend...
...press, flown in from Baghdad to this agricultural gridiron northeast of Samarra, huddled around the Iraqi officials and U.S. Army commanders who explained that the "largest air assault since 2003" in Iraq using over 50 helicopters to put 1500 Iraqi and U.S. troops on the ground had netted 48 suspected insurgents, 17 of which had already been cleared and released. The area, explained the officials, has long been suspected of being used as a base for insurgents operating in and around Samarra, the city north of Baghdad where the bombing of a sacred shrine recently sparked a wave of sectarian...
...political martyrs who had given their lives for their people. Every St. Patrick’s Day, we call to mind their struggle for a place in this country and honor their memory.After a while, the Irish began their slow rise to power in the urban centers of the Northeast. There wasn’t a ward boss or local politician in New York that didn’t march up Fifth Avenue on St. Patrick’s Day. So the American Irish continued to march, but this time to show their joy at gaining some measure of acceptance...