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Going into that race against the No. 7 Midshipmen, Harvard had held the top rank in the nation after easy victories in its first five races. The race began as usual, with Harvard starting strong and holding a six-seat lead through the first 1500 meters of the course. However, Navy bested the Crimson boat in the final sprint, upsetting the nation’s top seed by half a second...
...survey of faculty opinions conducted by The Crimson this fall, 31 out of 147 professors who responded to a question that asked them to rank their priorities for the Faculty, on a scale of one to 10 (with one being most important), gave “strengthening the sciences?...
...asked, and he paused for a second as if rippling through plausible answers in his mind. "Moscow State University", he answered. Engineering. Other people in the room added details, in Arabic, to Marwan. He was a colonel. He worked in atomic energy. He later admitted to his military rank, but said his expertise in nuclear issues extended only to a couple of Russian theoretical works on nuclear science that he had translated "for pleasure." His government work ended in 1993 when he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years on trumped-up charges. He was out in 4. "Amnesty...
...take their athletic prowess to reach the top. All they needed were their shining smiles, flawless features, alluring accents—and their athletic bodies didn’t hurt, either. Cornish and Tselentis were the champions of the first-ever Crimson Chaos competition, a website set up to rank senior boys at Harvard by their physical appearance. Starting in a single-elimination bracket of 64 attractive seniors, Cornish and Tselentis, both chosen for FM’s fifteen hottest freshmen four years ago, advanced all the way to a face-off in the final round, where Cornish eked...
...team risk being seen by ordinary Palestinians as nothing more than enforcers for Israel. So Abbas's approach to the security requirements of the roadmap is to woo Hamas through negotiations into supporting a cease-fire. His new security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, is reportedly formulating plans to "rehabilitate" rank and file fighters in these organizations by buying their weapons and recruiting them to serve in the PA's own security structures. That's unlikely to impress Israel - or the U.S. Now that Israel has formally adopted the roadmap, Washington will expect to see a Palestinian "war on terror" begin immediately...