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While the streets of Cambridge are turning into rivers, plans are underway to turn this year's annual Raft Race on the Charles at the end of the month into an even splashier event...
...decided we wanted to make the raft race a bigger and more spectacular event this year," said race committee co-chair Mike N. Druckman '87. "We just thought there was a potential to make it much better...
This year's event will include a tug-of-war competition and an air band lip sync contest in addition to the main raft race. A live band and dunk tank are also in the works, although organizers said they are having difficulty finding volunteers for the latter...
Frank J. Vittimberga '89 was also sure that he would return to Harvard in a year when he decided to take a year off. Having lived in Massachusetts his entire life, the Lexington native decided he would take a year off and explore the world. After a raft trip on the Rio Grande, Vittimberga headed off for Raratonga, on the Cook islands...
...agents, as well as state and local police, complain that they are fighting smugglers without the paraphernalia they need, including night-vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...