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...four-and-a-quarter-mile stretch of river is the second-longest competitive course in the world, a distance that many oarsmen from U.S. colleges are not used to, compared with the 2K races that are most common here...
...Both the Mahdi Army and the Sunni insurgents are working from the classic guerrilla warfare playbook: avoid confrontations with concentrations of better-armed enemy forces; lie low or mount attacks elsewhere to stretch his forces. It's been this way, in one form or another, since the insurgency began in the summer of 2003. And it's a reminder that no matter how thoughtful and well-executed the military strategy is, its effectiveness will be determined by the political reality...
...marathon was not all wind, rain, and sweat. Halfway through the race, participants reached the “Wellesley Scream Tunnel”—the stretch of the course that runs past the all-women’s Wellesley College. Every year, Wellesley students line up along this section of the course to scream and cheer while holding up signs...
...Infante was an ornament of Mexico's Golden Age (La é poca de Oro del Cine Mejicano), a two-decade stretch of potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco...
...penalty kill. Junior Alex Meintel was awarded the Donald Angier Trophy as the team’s most improved player. After two seasons in which the forward, marred by injuries, struggled with consistency, Meintel became one of the Crimson’s primary offensive weapons down the stretch, tallying 13 goals in a 15-game span. Freshmen Alex Biega and Doug Rogers shared the George Percy Award as the team’s top rookies, mirroring the defenseman-forward split of the team’s co-captains. Biega earned an ECAC All-Rookie Team nod, and Rogers was Harvard?...