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However, a top official of the United States Bobsled Federation said yesterday that "it's not clear" whether LaVigne will be able to regain his position on the third sled. International Bobsled Federation rules limit participating nations to 12 athletes per team. With the IOC ruling, LaVigne became the 13th member of the U.S. team...
Boston University (11-13-3), which lost to Norteastren in the championship game of the Beanpot, is ranked 13th in the nation, two slots ahead of 15th-ranked Colagte (15-7-2). Sort of makes you wonder about how these polls come up with such results...
...your Jan. 13th article on Harvard crew members writing in support of their former associate Mr. Washburn, you imply that coach Harry Parker and his rowers are somehow responsible for the miscarriage of justice in the Washburn case...
...prepare for that rainy day, America's banks are facing the painful task of giving up on their most hopeless loans, taking the losses now rather than putting them off. Last week Bank of Boston, the 13th largest U.S. bank, said it plans to write off $200 million of its total $1 billion in Third World loans and set aside $470 million to pay for losses it might sustain on the rest. While other banks, led by New York's Citicorp, announced huge set-asides earlier this year to cover losses on Latin debt, the Boston bank's move...
...Middle Ages. Fortunately so, as illustrated in The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Rizzoli; 173 pages; $85). Sed-Rajna, director of the Hebraic department of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris, has included , painted manuscripts from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Biblical characters depicted in medieval dress recall the stories of Genesis, Abraham and Jacob, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den and The Song of Solomon. The undeniable vigor of the art leads Sed-Rajna to conclude that these little-known iconographers influenced later illustrators more than...