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...strong tailwind for the varsity race helped the record pace, but had its drawbacks as well...
Only nature had any hope of stopping the Harvard heavyweights on Saturday morning.And as it turns out, nature didn’t have much luck, either. The Crimson varsity heavyweights demolished Northeastern early, then worked to overcome a brutal cross tailwind and terribly choppy water in a rout over the Huskies early Saturday morning on the Charles River. “The water was basically Class 3 rapids,” varsity seven-seat Andrew Boston said. “I don’t know what to call it—it was almost like white-water rafting...
...series of incidents, including the Jayson Blair debacle at the New York Times, the fall of Jack Kelley at USA Today, the dubious National Guard memos at CBS, Newsweek'suse of a doctored photo of Martha Stewart on its cover, and CNN and TIME's 1998 retraction of the "Tailwind" story that claimed the U.S. had used nerve gas during a 1970 commando mission in Laos...
...addressed around 1,000 Duisburg workers on May Day, they pelted him with eggs as he stood behind a line of policemen protecting him with riot shields. "This campaign is really fun," the cdu's Rüttgers told a rally last week. "It's nice to have a tailwind for once." A cdu victory in North Rhine-Westphalia could be the clearest sign yet that Germans are ready for a change of leadership in Berlin...
...think our boat had some trouble with the quartering tailwind because it is one of the most difficult types of wind to row in,” Schofield said. “There were a number of points when the wind and the choppy water through off our set. However, Yale faced exactly the same wind that we did so it probably wasn’t a deciding factor in the race...