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...faze the 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...
Maybe it's the optimists' time. At the morning meeting in the U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent's house on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Bush pushed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to agree on a negotiating plan for the next 14 months. That was an unexpected turn in the talks. "[Bush] said it was rare when people find themselves at a juncture where they can change history," said a senior Administration official in the room. "It was very moving." But history judges leaders on their handling of the national interest...
...succeeds Benno C. Schmidt Jr., who in December was named president of Yale. Her promotion marks a significant academic milestone; she becomes the first woman ever to head one of the nation's blue-ribbon law schools. "She's a woman for all sea-sons," proclaimed Columbia President Michael Severn, calling her appointment "just one facet of an extraordinarily gifted human being." And in a pointed comment he added, "She is too solid a choice to allow her being a woman to count. I wanted the best possible person...
When Black first entered Columbia Law School as a student back in the fall of 1953, women made up only 15% of the class, which incidentally included a young student named Michael Severn. One of her more demanding mentors at the time was Professor Charles L. Black Jr., whom she eventually married. After Charles transferred to Yale in 1956, Barbara followed him to New Haven, Conn., where she rose through the faculty ranks to become an associate professor of law. In 1984 she returned to Columbia as a full professor...
When Sovern first called her to talk about the deanship, he opened the conversation by saying, "The class of '55 strikes again!" Indeed, Severn purposely made a quick strike after Schmidt's announced departure. At a time when law-school applications outside the Ivy League and a handful of other elite universities are down 20% from 1982, he wanted to avoid the impression of a store left untended...