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...race incongruities, most notably at Yale—Harvard relinquished a boat length in the first 1,000 meters to both Yale and Princeton, only to storm back in the final 500 to pull within a seat of the victorious Bulldogs—make the Crimson’s prospects at Lake Quinsigamond as unpredictable as was the boat’s lineup during the dual season...
...Since then it's been the other side's turn. This week, when Nifong charged a third suspect, team co-captain Dave Evans, Evans did not pull his jacket over his head and slouch through his perp walk. He called his own press conference. "You have all been told some fantastic lies," he declared, "and I look forward in watching them unravel in the weeks to come, as they already have in weeks past, and the truth will come out." His lawyer referred not to the victim, but "the false accuser," and released results of a polygraph supporting Evans' story...
...says.Dingman adds, “I’ve gotten one e-mail from a freshman this spring, stating ‘am I aware that a class is continuing to meet and that there are additional expectations for work, and where is the time to pull back and get some perspective?’” As a response, Dingman passed the e-mail along to the Office of Academic Programs. “I think it’s an ongoing topic of concern, this is not news for anyone, really,” he says.Even Harvard?...
...campaign's high command went into a tizzy when you scheduled a joint appearance for your mother with John Kerry's wife. Why did you pull the plug? My mom would have wiped the floor with Teresa Heinz Kerry. I'm very sad that event never took place. The [campaign's] reaction was so energetic and loud that I honestly couldn't hear all of the arguments, but the one that came through most clearly was that having my mom do a town hall with Teresa Heinz Kerry would somehow have forced the President to start debating John Kerry much...
...nations ... The greatest threat to Khomeini's Iran may finally come not from the battlefield but from the country's almost suicidal tendency to cut itself off from the rest of the world. Each time Iran begins to make overtures to other nations, it seems instinctively to stop and pull back. Tehran's tenuous links with Washington, Paris and London have all been shattered in the past year ... Whether Iran can leave such traits behind will ultimately rest with Khomeini's successors. TIME...