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...seconds on Lake Carnegie. Recent Princeton-Harvard races, however, have been anything but one-sided, and Saturday’s race began as no exception. A Crimson varsity that had worked all week on racing more aggressively took off from the start with a solid first 20 strokes, jumping the senior-laden Tigers by three seats before both boats settled into the first 500. “Having raced them so much last year, we knew they are an incredibly good boat,” varsity five-seat Toby Medaris said. “We knew it was going...
...officials and doctors gave her a tour, the corridors were lined with hundreds of staff, patients and families who cheered and waved flags. Teenagers laughed and gave each other high-fives for snatching good snaps of her with their mobile phones. Charles Anderson, who had suffered a mild stroke, said the Queen "is very warm, very easy to talk to. Helluva job she's got. I wouldn't want it." She stopped to chat with Linda Patterson, whose arm was in a cast after breaking her thumb. "I think I'm going to cry, I'm so excited!" Patterson said...
...remote, high-living litist. As recently as March 2005, just 13% of Israelis in a poll wanted Olmert for their leader. But his prospects began to turn last fall, when Sharon deserted the right-wing Likud Party to form the centrist Kadima. Six weeks later, a stroke put Sharon in a coma, leaving Olmert to take over as acting government head and party leader. In last month's general election, Kadima won more seats in parliament than any other party, cementing Olmert's claim as Prime Minister--and capping a run of political fortune that has left counterparts numb...
...foot margin—the equivalent of one seat. The race stayed tight from start to finish, with the Bears’ early six-seat lead the largest either team would claim throughout. Brown broke out to that six-seat margin within the race’s first 20 strokes, and Harvard remained six seats back throughout the first 500 meters. “We expected them to start pretty quickly,” Henderson said. “But we sort of expected to draw them back in, like we did most of last season.”After...
...TIME: Still, you became Prime Minister in pretty extraordinary circumstances, after Ariel Sharon's stroke. Did you feel prepared...