Word: weekends
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...Regis Cup last weekend, Harvard had turned in a stellar second-place finish on the same course. But Saturday, a light 3-5 knot breeze made steering and maintaining speed difficult. Yesterday, the gusts picked up to 8-10 knots, and the Harvard sailors seized upon more favorable wind speeds...
...England Division is regarded as the most competitive division of the seven sections in the NCAA. If Harvard can compete with the best in New England, as it has demonstrated this weekend, it has the potential to do well at nationals, which will be held at the end of May at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg...
...team was also in action this weekend. Two boats sailed at the URI course in the Moody Trophy regatta. In the two-division, 14-race event, Harvard finished second to B.U. in the 14-team field. The race was a prelude to next week's New England Championships, which will be held on the same course...
That's why last weekend's NATO summit loomed as such a defining moment. When Clinton invited the 42 members and partners of NATO to Washington for a 50th birthday party, he envisaged a glittering capstone to his diplomatic legacy, grandly positioning the alliance as the bigger, broader 21st century mainstay of pan-European security. Instead he found himself presiding over a council of war. Those who feared that the decision to forgo ground troops from the start is dooming the allied cause set up a clamor for NATO to reconsider. A month after firing off its first cruise missiles...
Fifty years ago, movies were homogenous, meant to appeal to the whole family. Now pop culture has been Balkanized; it is full of niches, with different groups watching and playing their own things. And big movies, the ones that grab $20 million on their first weekend, are guy stuff. Young males consume violent movies, in part, for the same reason they groove to outlaw music: because their parents can't understand it--or stand it. To kids, an R rating for violence is like the Parental Advisory on CDs: a Good Housebreaking Seal of Approval...