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...Harvard sailing team picked up where it left off last weekend, earning its fourth first-place finish of the young season and notching a key top three finish at a top-tier regatta in Kings Point, N.Y. The Crimson also kept a fleet of sailors nearby, as the team took seventh-place in a local race on the Charles River.Through just two weeks of competition of the fall campaign, Harvard already has four top finishes in only eight competitions.“It was a pretty good weekend for us all around,” co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs...
...received over 350 emails from students at the end of the pilot program showing overwhelming support for its continuation. The UC and The Crimson sent a letter to then-President Derek C. Bok to persuade the administration to pick up the cost of the program, but Bok declined. The UC voted down legislation that would share the expense of papers with HoCos, which would have cost $1,700 for the duration of the semester—the same amount of money regularly doled out for parties in a given weekend...
...looming political uncertainty has precipitated calls for a grand alliance between the country's perennial political foes. "Frustrated voters cultivate romantic notions," a senior pollster said on condition of anonymity because of the polling ban. On Sunday he said, "most voters will sober up before the ballot box and pick the best of the unfavourable choices before them." Provided, of course, they show...
...slashed the tires of the car behind him to thwart the German agents who were following him. One of the suspects, less than discreetly, chanted anti-U.S. slogans outside a nightclub frequented by servicemen while being watched. No need for a wiretap to pick that...
...primary road. He was appointed over a decade ago, at a meeting of residents advertised with a note pinned to the bus stop, and conducted on the street: It's purpose was to get rid of the previous chairman, denounced as a drunk, although when it came time to pick a replacement, there were no candidates. Eventually, the present chairman - whom most locals know only by his title, not his name - was nominated by a friend of his. When he failed to decline the nomination, the relieved locals hastily concluded their exercise in democracy...