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...After all the turmoil we’ve been through, we were able to find nine guys who were dedicated to making this boat move, and it was fantastic to walk away knowing there was nothing more we could have done.”Harvard started slow and was in fifth place after the first 300 meters. But the Crimson pushed aggressively and was able to take down each boat ahead of it until it was neck and neck with the Big Red.As both boats crossed the finish line, there was little consensus as to who had won. Only...
...accomplished.”But Bingham quickly assumed authority, and during his tenure the paper won three Pulitzer Prizes.“He poured his heart and soul into The Courier-Journal,” Daniloff says. “It was difficult for him because he was a slow reader, and yet he insisted on reading everything in the newspaper every day.”Bingham hired the first full-time ombudsman in 1969, then instituted the first extensive conflict of interest policy in the country in 1972. “We were told never to accept anything free...
...compared to the calamities that befall the Pitt character in a single day - the shooting of his wife, the disappearance of his children - Job had it easy. When Babel opens in the fall, the mass movie audience may feel similarly plagued. In a provocative Babel subplot, medical aid is slow coming to the wounded Blanchett because of an intergovernmental debate over whether the shooting is an act of Islamic terrorism. That was one of many echoes in Cannes movies of roiling events in the world beyond the screen. Yet Cannes '06 was fairly harangue-free; there was no Michael Moore...
...peacekeeping force has got tougher in the past year, chasing rebels and apprehending or even killing them, but the force lacks the numbers to impose complete order. Congolese troops who are supposed to be helping the U.N. peacekeepers have proved ineffective and corrupt and have been hampered by slow and often nonexistent wages. The European Union is working on ensuring that salaries and rations get to Congo's soldiers, and there has been some improvement. But corruption is still a big problem. A Western official in Kinshasa, Congo's capital, estimates that at least $3.2 million of the $8 million...
...recently-opened research facility in Boston, according to Skidmore. She added that the scout’s major role was to foster interactions with Boston laboratories, especially since Boston is a “hotspot” for biochemical research and development. The drugs to be developed would slow the build-up in the eye over time of retinotoxic molecules called lipofusins—the cause of AMD—according to Rando. These toxins cause degeneration of the macula, the part of the retina that controls keenness of vision and color vision, sometimes to the point of complete blindness...