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...sailing team traveled to Newport, R.I. and took fourth at the Salve Regina Wood Trophy race. The No. 9 women’s team opened its season with mixed results at the Navy Women’s Regatta in Annapolis, M.D., taking sixth place despite limited outside training during the winter months. WOOD TROPHY After winning the Sharpe Trophy Team race last weekend, the Crimson traveled to Regina Salve University without co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs, who spent the weekend at home training with professional sailors. Instead, sophomore skipper Jon Garrity led the A-division with senior crew Ashley Nathanson...
...troops now being added to U.S. forces in Iraq, there already are reports that the military is developing a Plan B if the surge strategy fails. According to Monday's Los Angeles Times, Pentagon officials are weighing the wisdom of pulling out combat forces and relying more on the training of Iraqi forces to extricate U.S. troops from Iraq. It could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved in the conflict themselves. Whatever policy the U.S. eventually...
...Ashoke Ganguli, whose train journey through the Indian countryside begins the film “The Namesake,” Russian writer Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat” radically changes his life. Because of Gogol, Ganguli moves to the United States and embarks on a journey he could not otherwise have imagined. He even nicknames his Indian-American son after the author, giving the movie he theme behind its title.Actor Kal Penn, who plays Gogol, also credits a certain work of art with inspiring a radical career change. The work...
...have come across as deferential to the President in public, but friends and advisers in the fall of 2002 described Cheney as nothing less than the engine of the Administration. "There's no way in which he is not driving the train on this," said one, referring to Cheney's role in pushing Bush and the Administration inexorably toward an invasion of Iraq. "Analysis, advocacy - it's all done by Cheney or his protégés or his former mentor [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld]. It's about context. It's reflective not so much of Cheney...
...into the match in the second set.” “But I closed it out,” she added. “I feel my tennis is really improving.” A week off will provide an opportunity for the Crimson to recover and train. Harvard returns to the courts next Tuesday against UMass-Amherst. NOTE: Bad weather in Chicago led to airport delays and a cancellation of yesterday’s scheduled match against Northwestern. —Staff writer Tyler D. Sipprelle can be reached at sipprell@fas.harvard.edu...