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...edition of the women’s rowing Beanpot.Led by the outstanding performance of the varsity eight, which posted a blazing time of 6:35.7, the team beat out Northeastern, Boston University, Boston College, and MIT.In that varsity eight heat, Radcliffe came off the line fast and proceeded to pull away from the rest of the crews on the river. The squad never looked back, notching a 9.6-second win over the second-place Huskies. “The Beanpot is a lot of hometown pride—it was definitely an uplifting thing for the team...
...quickly matched. Just 15 seconds after Martin’s tally, Cornell attack Courtney Farrell retaliated with an unassisted goal. A minute later, Farrell notched another goal to make the score 5-1. Following Farrell’s pair, Martin and junior attack Caroline Simmons each scored to pull Harvard within two. Cornell and Martin traded goals again, keeping the game close at 6-4. However, the follow-up to Martin’s third goal was disastrous for the Crimson. Over an 18-minute span that began near the end of the first half and stretched far into...
...past, Iraqis were not accustomed to thinking of themselves primarily as Shia or Sunni. But the way we implemented democracy had led people to believe that they deserved a piece of the pie based on their membership in a certain group. So the whole dynamic was to pull away from the center. The decisions we made tended to fracture Iraq, not to bring it together...
...Baghdad. We knew that the INC's armed militia had seized tens of thousands of Saddam regime documents and was slowly doling them out to the U.S. government. Beyond that it was unclear to me what the Pentagon was getting for its money. Somehow the president's direction to pull the plug on the arrangement continued to be ignored...
...project wasn’t easy.“It was really a lot of work and it felt like it was never going to end for a long time,” he says. “I’m really glad that we were able to pull it off. There was always doubt in our minds but it worked out.”DOIN’ IT WELLIn addition to inspiring a new musical turn, the EP project’s success secured the band’s fate, both in the minds of its members...