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...Crimson (13-20, 6-6 Ivy) returned its conference record to .500 and kept pace with division leader Dartmouth with the two wins over the Bears (11-22, 8-4). Harvard pitchers were the highlight of the afternoon, consistently throwing strikes while effectively keeping Brown runners off of the base paths...
...father (Benjamin T. Morris ’09) follows suit with his hilarious introductory song, “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.” He delivers his performance with confident, prim inflection at a break-neck pace, capturing the Major-General’s character from the first sure-handed note. His assurance that he can provide “many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse” provides laughs...
Although the Radcliffe varsity eight (1-4) held pace with the Big Green’s boat at the outset of the race, Dartmouth decisively pulled away by the 1,000-meter point, leaving the Black and White and Syracuse to battle for second place. Radcliffe made its move on the Orange in the second half of the race, crossing the finish in 6:32.0—four seconds in front of Syracuse but almost 12 seconds shy of Dartmouth’s boat...
...troop levels now stand at 9,500, in terms of national security. Britain, it is said, must take the fight to the bad guys to keep its citizens safe. Yet as the list of rickety states and terror havens has continued to expand, defense spending has failed to keep pace even as equipment costs have spiraled upward. The prospect of lean times as Britain reins in its budget deficit has pitched army, navy and air force commanders into open turf wars. Lower down the ranks, the endemic overstretch expresses itself in a stark statistic: according to Britain's Ministry...
...insurgents - is a simulation in Wales, the wounds faked. But Greenwood's urgency is all too real. Within a year of completing their training this month, some 60% of these officer cadets from Britain's élite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst will deploy to Afghanistan. There, says Greenwood, "the pace of operations is so fast and there's constant enemy contact. We have to make sure they're ready...