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...almost the entire race, the second varsity eight placed second behind Wisconsin. A strong gust of wind caused an oarsman to catch a crab in the final 200 meters, allowing the Badgers to overtake the Crimson in the last moments of the race. “After a string of wins in the dual races of each subsequent Saturday, we were firmly on track for achieving the perfect record,” Morgan said. “Being denied this at Eastern Sprints was a bitter pill to swallow, especially since we faltered in the closing seconds of the race...
...performance over the previous two months that threatened to turn the Crimson into an irrelevance, head coach Ted Donato ’91 was facing his first real crisis since coming to Harvard in 2004. Preparing to compete in Boston’s Beanpot tournament and face a string of ECAC opponents until the end of the season, Donato stressed that only renewed focus and confidence could return Harvard to its potential that had already led the Crimson to victory over the likes of Boston University and Cornell. Time and again in this losing streak, Harvard had fallen thanks...
...courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining “The Development of the String Quartet.” And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew a broader grounding if they choose to seek...
...husband, outgoing President Nestor Kirchner, who instead of seeking a second term after one of the most succesful presidencies in Argentina's history, turned over the reins of a burgeoning economy to the nation's First Lady. At that point, state coffers were bursting with foreign reserves, after a string of four uncharacteristically uneventful years - following a financial crisis that claimed a President in 2001 and resulted in five men holding the office in the space of just two weeks...
...need it now. We'll need it tomorrow. And we'll still need it decades from now. But we still can't get a deal done with Moscow. Not on oil and gas. We've talked and talked and talked - and issued to the international press a string of optimistic sounding half-truths for the last four years - but we still don't have much to show...