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...week-long break from classes is nearly guaranteed to lighten the mood of Harvard students. The fickle, Maryland winds that accompanied the Crimson sailing team’s during the three weekend regattas provided a welcome boost to the morale of the coed squad but only produced vexation for the women’s team...
Among the tough competition, Harvard’s sailors were able to prove their own mettle. Junior John Stokes was the most successful skipper of the weekend, leading the B boat to a second place finish. Stokes’s boat excelled out of a field of twenty, as it snatched two first-place and four top-four finishes on Sunday while racing with Bock...
...Crimson plans to take lessons from the wins and failures of the past weekend into next week’s match against Marist. Earlier in the season, Harvard fell to the Red Foxes in a close 12-10 battle...
...access to health care (pushed, no doubt, by Democrats from every competitive congressional district and state). The louder Republicans yell, the more they will be characterized and caricatured as sore losers infuriated by the first major delivery of candidate Obama's promise of "change." The focus on the weekend's alleged racial and gay-bashing verbal attacks by opponents of the Democrats' plan should be a caution to Republican strategists trying to figure out how to manage the media this year...
...While northern China has been battered by sandstorms this spring, traditionally soggier south China has been battling drought. Premier Wen Jiabao spent the weekend touring drough-stricken villages in Yunnan province, where many areas have received half the usual rainfall. Sixteen million people in the region are now suffering drinking water shortages, according to state media. The Dai ethnic group, which is concentrated near the Burmese border in western Yunnan, has even been encouraged to cut back on the amount of water used during the upcoming Water Splashing Festival it celebrates each year to mark the arrival of spring...