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...headwinds and crosswinds proved challenging to navigate. The heavyweight crew team will compete against Princeton and Cornell next Saturday while the lightweights travel to Camden, New Jersey this weekend for the Knecht Cup, which will feature over 50 crews from schools across the country. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...early night, it turned out, was well advised, for at 4:30 a.m. press secretary Robert Gibbs was forced to wake the president from his slumber. North Korea had launched a long-expected test missile into the Sea of Japan, in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution. (See TIME's photos of the Obama-Sarkozy meeting in Strasbourg...
...White House had been preparing for the launch for days. Within 90 minutes, a statement condemning the actions was released. A few hours later, Gibbs was briefing reporters, saying that Obama had already spoken with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already been dispatched to arrange an afternoon Security Council meeting to condemn the action...
...This on the Safety Card? We all know how frustrating it is to be trapped on a plane on the runway, idling for hours, waiting hopelessly for lift off. Here's one reason to steel your patience: Robert McDonald, a Scottish traveler who was stuck aboard a Delta flight for more than two-and-half hours at New York City's JFK airport on March 31, had apparently lost his cool. In an attempt to deplane, McDonald allegedly yanked open the aircraft's emergency exit door while the plane was on the tarmac. The crew says it stopped him from...
...change in the way banks have to account for these special purpose entities will mean great danger for their capital ratios," says corporate accounting expert Robert Willens...