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...years in office. The turnout was especially high in larger cities such as Krakow, Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over...
Strange as it may seem, that is a question that some residents of Portland, Me. will have to wrestle with after the school board last week passed a measure allowing an independently-run clinic at a local middle school to distribute prescription-strength birth control pills without parental permission. Any student wishing to receive the pills will have to undergo counseling and be examined by a physician or nurse who can prescribe the drugs. And parents do have to sign a waiver to give their children access to any of the clinic’s services. But the decision...
...only audible element of a crew race, save for the monotonous whoosh of the oars after the blade squares and feathers with each stroke. Their words narrate an otherwise silent race, offering encouragement and support to athletes whose goal it is to end a race with no strength left to row another stroke.“Somebody being able to channel their voice to motivate eight great athletes in that kind of way is a very special thing,” Davis says. “You feel completely integrated in the win. It’s something you feel...
After honoring the almost annual tradition of dominating opponents during the dual-meet portion of the season—Harvard defeated the likes of Brown, Navy, and Princeton—the Crimson swept into Eastern Sprints carrying an undefeated 6-0 dual record and high expectations. Although the strength of the Yale varsity heavyweights, whom Harvard had not yet faced, remained uncertain, the Crimson jumped out to an early lead over the Bulldogs and never looked back, leading the pack from wire to wire. Bolstered by strong tail winds, Harvard set a new course record and took home the Sprints...
...varsity Sprints titles, and five Henley crowns. Two consecutive silver-medal finishes at IRAs have this whole group—not just Young, the only varsity lightweight who remains from those two crews—ready to make a splash come springtime.“We have all this strength on our team,” Parham says. “I feel like once the sophomores work with [lightweight varsity head coach] Charley [Butt] for a few months here and really get the rhythm down and things like that, we are going to start moving together, and these boats...