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Four Radcliffe crews faced off against a slew of collegiate and international foes in the annual Head of the Charles Regatta yesterday afternoon. Despite the tough competition, the Crimson women drew on the hometown crowd to post a set of excellent early-season results.The lightweights raced first, fielding two boats in the lightweight eight division. Radcliffe’s first varsity eight placed sixth overall and third among collegiate crews with a time of 17:36.954 for the 5K race.“I think we were hoping to place a little better than we had, but that being said...
...their own against the rigorous competition, it was, as always, the Crimson’s heavyweight championship four that received the most attention this weekend. A trademark of rowing coach Harry Parker, the four strongest oarsmen from last year’s varsity team traditionally represent Harvard in that race. “Coach tends not to show his cards until the spring season actually begins,” heavyweight captain Teddy Schreck said.And while powerhouses Brown, Washington, and Cal may have selected their best oarsmen for the championship eight event, that doesn’t mean the Crimson faced...
...push back against the power sharing without suffering too much pressure from his neighbors. Zimbabwe's only president since independence in 1980, Mugabe has taken wildly different positions since the March elections, in which the MDC won control of parliament and Tsvangirai finished first in the presidential race, although without an absolute majority. At the time, Mugabe said Zimbabweans had made a "mistake," and his security forces unleashed a wave of repression that left close to 200 M.D.C. supporters dead. The violence prompted Tsvangirai to withdraw from a second round of presidential elections, which Mugabe won - only to announce...
...Chicago's mayoral election after being projected a decisive victor. In 1989, Douglas Wilder held a nine-point lead on the eve of Virginia's gubernatorial election, and won by less than one percentage point. That same year, David Dinkins' 18-point lead in New York City's mayoral race evaporated in the voting booths, though he still eked out a nail-biter over Rudy Giuliani...
...become almost a rite of passage for industrializing nations. Now it's Vietnam's turn. The communist government's embrace of the free market has lifted millions out of poverty over the last decade. But just as in neighboring China, environmental considerations have been largely pushed aside in the race to build factories and industrial parks, few of them equipped with adequate wastewater treatment facilities...