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...Crimson heavyweights, as the No. 5 varsity eight maintained its perfect record with a nine-second victory over Penn and No. 15 Navy. Setting the tone for the day, the crew improved to 5-0 on the season by completing the 2,000-meter course on the Severn River in 5:54.50, while the winless Quakers came in at 6:03.71 and the Midshipmen finished in 6:07.16. The win gave Harvard its 10th Adams Cup in a row and its 47th overall...
...Coming off its own victory over Navy last week, Harvard’s lightweight crew traveled to New Haven, Conn. this weekend in a much-anticipated showdown with Princeton and Yale on the Housatonic River amidst excellent conditions...
...more races against the best crews in the nation, but only the lightweight women’s crew team proved up to the task. While No. 2 Yale got the better of the Black and White heavyweight women’s crew team on Saturday morning in the Charles River Challenge, the lightweights knocked off No. 2 Princeton to win the Class of 2009 Cup.The No. 4 Black and White have done what only one other crew in the country has managed to do—beat Princeton in dual competition. With all the hard work and training, Radcliffe...
...film’s sensitive curiosity about this divide is reflected in the complex dualities depicted on screen. The yellow earth is the farmers’ sole mode of sustenance, yet simultaneously it is an oppressive, arid land that binds them to scarcity and poverty. Likewise, the Yellow River symbolizes life and nourishment, but it also eliminates life—when Cuiqiao tries to escape her village by swimming across the river, her singing abruptly ends...
...Korea with "hostile intent." Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency said Friday that the North decided to indict the women reporters "based on criminal data confirmed." The pair were detained by North Korean guards last month after allegedly straying across the border, an unmarked halfway point on the Tumen River dividing China and northeastern North Korea. The U.S State Department, which already has its hands full trying to secure the release of 31-year-old Iranian American journalist Roxana Saberi, has been especially tight-lipped about the North Korean case, saying only "numerous channels are being used to hasten their...