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...Harvard relay showing, with senior Derek Jones, sophomore Dan Chenoweth, and freshmen Darcy Wilson and Brian Paison completing the event in 10:00.78.The women also challenged themselves against excellent competition and watched a few relay teams excel. The 4x1600 team of sophomores Claire Richardson, Hilary May, and Jamie Olson, along with rookie Nicole Cochran, crossed the line in fourth, drawing praise from Saretsky.“The women’s 1600 did a really great job,” he said. “It was fun watching them beat Stanford, a traditional powerhouse.”Harvard bested...
...which would be fairly standard ratings-chasing melodrama, except that prominent members of the GOP, like Karl Rove and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, began signing on to versions of Beck's critique. At that point conservative heavy hitters, including former Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Clinton tormenter Ken Starr, spoke up in favor of Koh. The dispute soon spread to the blogosphere, and Republicans across the country took sides, calling one another "fruitcakes" and "windbags." (Read "Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown...
...traditionalists defend Koh's character. Former Senator John Danforth wrote the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was "puzzled and distressed that various media personalities and interest groups have tried to tarnish" Koh, whom he called "well within the mainstream of American legal thinkers." Olson called Koh "a brilliant scholar and a man of great integrity," and Starr said he "embraces, deeply, a vision of the goodness of America...
...really good job spreading out her energy.”Other events that also stood out for the women included the women’s 800-meter and the 3000-meter run. The Crimson earned nine valuable points from the 800-meter after sophomores Thea Lee and Jamie Olson and senior Jan Ng finished 1-2-3 for Harvard. Sophomore Claire Richardson continued her outstanding outdoor campaign, running an ECAC qualifying time of 9:52.60 in the 3000-meter run.While the women had no problem taking care of the Bulldogs, the men continued to struggle against their counterparts...
...Done 183 times on a single person, each flood of water, each subsequent near-death experience, increases the possibility of debilitating and irreparable harm," says Brad Olson, a research professor of psychology at Northwestern University. "The cumulative impact of this waterboarding is tremendous. It's going to produce permanent psychological damage even in the most resilient human...