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Penn pulled off the starting line this weekend with a high stroke rate, trying to pull ahead of the favored Crimson and utilize a strong head wind in the last 300 meters to deny any comeback...
...high point of the race was moving on Columbia in the first 500 meters," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "We were taking almost a seat a stroke on them...
...Black-and-White rowed with a consistent 32-stroke rating, and by the 500-meter mark was a length up on the Tigers as the Big Red faded back even further into the blue...
...pardon may be forthcoming -- but the process is likely to take at least three years. Chances are, though, that if Oliver North and his co-defendants in the Iranscam scandal receive pardons, the deal will not happen quite that way. President Reagan will probably grant their petitions with the stroke of a pen, without a three-year wait and perhaps even without a trial...
...stroke of noon on Dec. 31, 1999, the U.S. is scheduled to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama forever. When the treaty transferring the waterway was signed in 1977, it was widely denounced in both countries: many Panamanians complained about the protracted timetable, while many Americans, including Ronald Reagan, insisted that the canal should remain in U.S. hands. Today the treaty is again a source of controversy. An embattled General Manuel Antonio Noriega is trying to rally his countrymen by claiming that Washington wants to break the agreement. Meanwhile, some legislators on Capitol Hill are asking whether...