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...Crimson entered the final weekend of the regular season needing wins in two of four games against rival Dartmouth. The season’s high point: Harvard’s division clincher on the final season’s day, a 23-9 rout...
...Saturday and stumbled. Lucky for the Black and White, the squad hit the race running and never looked back. In a dominating performance on the Charles the past weekend, the Radcliffe lightweight varsity four and novice eight boats notched important victories over the team’s Cambridge rival to reassert the Black and White’s momentum, which it had lost last week against Princeton. “Those races were pretty inspiring for everybody,” lightweight co-captain Ashley Antony said. “It gives the team confidence that we know how to race...
...supporters, and by the summer of 2004 both political parties were inviting bloggers to their nominating conventions. But politicians are now wooing the bloggers harder than ever. Much of the activity has been on the Democratic side, since pols on Capitol Hill see the blogs as a liberal media rival to conservative talk radio and potential 2008 candidates recognize left-wing blogs could prove a powerful force in the Democratic primaries. "It?s only been in the past couple of years that I started to fully appreciate the power of what?s going on in the blogosphere," says former Virginia...
Because it had been rumored about for months, Goss's departure was one of those Washington episodes that are more sudden than surprising. Goss was alarmed to discover, within a few months after taking over, how hard the job was. He lost some fights with rival intelligence agencies, particularly at Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon. He wasn't a very good manager, and while he had been put in the job to assert control over CIA careerists, the flow of experienced hands opting for the exit on his watch was steady and worrisome...
...even more striking. Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.3 million in the Urals region, 900 miles east of Moscow, is best known as the place where the Bolshevik revolutionaries shot the last Czar and his family in 1918. In the early 1990s, local factories ran out of money, and rival Mafia gangs battled for control of parts of town. The killings haven't entirely stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office...