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Some weeks, Harvard has blazed off the stakeboats, established a commanding lead, but has failed to demolish its opponents. Other races, the Crimson has slugged at the water lethargically and beaten admittedly weaker crews by narrow margins. Only after the Augusta victory did all eight oarsmen feel that they had "drained the tank...
Outside, Hanoi's narrow tree-lined streets are filled with bicycles and pedicabs, for private cars are a rarity in the city. In the busy market area, customers crowd into a tiny but popular cafe that serves white coffee with a whipped raw egg to help ward off the pervasive dampness of the rainy season. Around the corner on Hang Gai Street, shoppers wander past privately owned clothing and novelty shops that are little more than window fronts. Nevertheless, they are the busiest stores in Hanoi. One of them is owned by Dao Thi Huan, 71, a retired government worker...
...reach in his flak jacket. His field pack weighs 40 lbs., and the day is surpassingly hot. The lance corporal his buddies call "Red" is sweating heavily. His squad leader, not much older than McClellan, gives a hand signal, and the patrol moves off the road and down a narrow trail. Just the beginning of another very long day in the Republic of Vietnam. Says McClellan, now a 19- year veteran of the San Francisco police force: "I remember individual days there in perfect sequence like it was yesterday...
AALARM has adopted a very narrow range of interests. Our goals are to inform students about traditional values and to encourage the manifestation of these values on campus. We want to say that homosexuality, drugs and abortion are wrong. However, these important issues are not our entire focus. We are about positive alternatives to nihilism and pessimism. We encourage students to reach for ideals of faith and community, i.e. traditional values. We're not about telling people what to believe, but to believe. Never be afraid to believe...
...leveraged buyouts fade, corporate raiders are rediscovering the good old- fashioned proxy fight. -- Japan and the U.S. agree on reforms to narrow the trade...