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...women’s lightweight and heavyweight crews competed in the 45th Annual Head of the Charles Regatta. The Black and White lightweight varsity eight earned a top-five finish with a time of 18:26.343, while its second varsity eight counterpart finished in 19:01.044, good for 11th place in the 14-boat race...
...thought the race was great,” said junior varsity lightweight Leah Schwartz. “The lightweight women had an outstanding performance despite cold and windy conditions...we stayed composed and finished in a good place...
...Black and White lightweight eight finished in third place third among collegiate varsity crews, falling behind only Wisconsin—which won the race—and Georgetown—which finished third. More impressive was the comeback run the Radcliffe lightweight women achieved against rival Princeton...
...Army lacked sufficient troops in Afghanistan to control the countryside. "After seven years in Afghanistan, there is not one square kilometer left untouched by a boot of a Soviet soldier," Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the top Soviet military officer, said in November 1986. "But as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be." (McChrystal's take: "The insurgents control or contest a significant portion of the country, although it is difficult to assess precisely how much due to a lack of [U.S. and allied] presence...
...boycott the unity government now calls into question Tsvangirai's decision to enter into the arrangement in the first place. Since the deal was signed, Mugabe and ZANU-PF have spared no effort to sabotage it. The party has stymied the formation of a government by introducing endless procedural objections and by simply not turning up to meetings. Growing MDC impatience finally boiled over on Oct. 15 with the re-arrest of Roy Bennett, the party's treasurer and a white farmer, on charges of possessing weapons with the intention to commit sabotage, banditry and insurgency. But even here, Tsvangirai...