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...Luff said. “It’s just a different mentality from last year, and so just different results.”The second varsity eight also turned the tables on Navy, which took the lead from the Crimson last year in the final stretch to register a win. This weekend, though, Harvard’s second varsity battled its way into the lead and kept it, relegating Navy to second place.“We were dead even for the first 30 or 40 strokes, and at one point I was on the seven-seat...
...Fuzz takes me back to the days of America's rampant Anglophilia - a three-decade stretch from Alec Guinness' Ealing comedies of the immediate postwar era through the rise of Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and the Beatles (whom we saw as essentially a musical comedy team) and culminating in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A lot of American kids got a lot of their sense of humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films...
...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...
...Sundquist is visibly excited by this prospect. “Oh yes, I love e-mail rampages. I’m going to send 300 e-mails tomorrow.” With the referendum underway, he later boasts of having sent 173 in a single four-hour stretch. But e-mails aren’t the only way Sundquist reaches out to his constituents. As he walks down Mount Auburn St. after an early-evening round of class, wielding a quart of orange juice and offering a swig to everybody in sight, it’s apparent that there?...
...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...