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...regatta with a combined 12 races. Harvard finished tied for 10th overall in a very competitive field.“I think our goal was to do a little better than we finished,” said junior women’s captain Megan Watson.In the face of inconsistent wind conditions, Harvard never seemed to get comfortable.In A-division, skipper Watson and freshman crew Meghan Wareham finished in 13th place with 132 points. The B-division hardly fared better, earning 136 points behind sophomore skipper Liz Powers and sophomore crew Kate Harris in 11th place.“There were...
...time he's asked for to prove it. "If it's resolved as quickly as possible Senator Stevens will have no problem getting reelected," Ensign said in an interview. All this is not to say the Democrats have a good chance of picking up nine seats. The tail wind from the 2006 elections would have to gust into 2008. "For Democrats to get to 60 they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana," said Charlie Cook, editor...
...points this season, however, including a dead last 18th-place finish at The McLaughlin Tournament at Bethpage Red. This past weekend’s performance is likely to be considered another disappointment. Scores were significantly higher across the board on the tournament’s second day, as swirling winds at the ocean-side golf course made judging distance and direction a challenge. “The hard part was that the wind was swirling so it would change direction, even on the same hole,” sophomore Peter Singh said. Singh shot 80-76 to finish tied...
...Change reports, “Warming of the climate system is now unequivocal…The global average net affect of human activities…has been one of warming.” As a result of this warming, “widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and aspects of extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones...
...North Koreans back into food-rationing. And at April's meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim's government sacked Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju, who had led a Cabinet-level economic think tank and was seen by some as friendly to reformers. "All of a sudden the wind seems to have gone out of the sail," says Brad Babson, a former North Korea specialist at the World Bank...