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...Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “I wanted to get the middle runners on the track at the Armory.” Highlighting the Crimson effort, sophomore Hilary May finished first in the women’s 3000-meter run, finishing at 10:05.31. The race marked her first collegiate 3K, as well as her first collegiate win. “The race was actually a really great way to start the season,” May said. “I talked with the coaches before and we decided it would be a good idea...
...swimming—to swim well like this given the circumstances is pretty good.”In addition to the obstacle of reading period time strain, the Crimson’s feat is made even more remarkable by the fact that many of the Harvard swimmers were racing in “off-events,” ones that they normally do not compete in.“It was good to be able to branch out from what we’ve all been normally swimming,” senior Bill Jones said.Jones, who usually swims...
...game. South Africa is on a roll, too, at least when it comes to sport. After the country won the Rugby World Cup in 2007, its cricketers have proved themselves world beaters. And for once, the description "rainbow nation" genuinely applies; South Africa's cricketers are white, black, mixed race and ethnically Indian. In 2010, South Africa hosts soccer's World Cup. It won't win, but the success of its cricketers will help lift South Africa's spirits as it prepares for the world's biggest sporting event...
...Battlestar Galactica, the Sci Fi Channel's darkly relevant reimagining of the 1970s campy space opera, the One Big Solution is us--that is, Earth. Somewhere in space, a few thousand humans have escaped near genocide by the Cylons, a race of robots of their own creation and indistinguishable from humans. The survivors are driven by the search for a planet--ours--on which a religious legend says the "13th tribe" of man long ago settled...
...divisive pick as President Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Griffin Bell, 90, was criticized for not doing enough to enforce school desegregation in the South as a federal judge in the 1960s. He was later praised, though, for his strategic work on race issues...