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...there's one part of America that Moore loves, it's Canada--a country with plenty of guns, poverty and violent films, but a murder rate one-twelfth that of the U.S. He speculates that the reason may be its less sensational media and more enlightened politicians. If he has no answers to U.S. violence, he does offer some scapegoats. He blames TV news for creating a climate of unjustified fear (reports of killings have risen 600%, he says, while the murder rate has decreased 20%) and the Executive Branch for an us-vs.-them foreign policy...
Junior John Mulcahy finished in twelfth place...
Among those who did run, captain Claire Nicholas and junior Virginia Scott turned in strong performances, with Nicholas finishing sixth in 19:00 and Scott registering a personal best, 41 seconds behind her in twelfth. Senior Leif-Ann Reilly exhibited midseason form after a summer of strong training, finishing 15th...
...TWELFTH GRADE WONDER...
...paper, the first varsity eight should have no trouble placing in the top two in its heat against sixth-seeded Penn, seventh-seeded Brown, twelfth-seeded Syracuse and thirteenth-seeded Rutgers to qualify for the finals. The Crimson outraced the Quakers by 8.36 seconds and beat the Bears by 4.5 seconds in its first two races of the season. And Harvard has only gotten better, although it still must guard against overconfidence...