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...were going under the Anderson Bridge right in front of the boathouse, we were overtaking Georgetown and they didn’t yield to us,” junior two-seat Sarah Bates said. “Our coxswain was steering an amazing course through the turn, but because the Georgetown boat wouldn’t move we ended up clashing oars and having to stop completely...
...said that a petition would be unlikely to yield significant results...
...role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest service to his country by refusing to yield to that temptation. At the end of his second Administration, he turned down a third term, thereby establishing an enduring example of limited presidential tenure...
Hours in front of the computer and a good understanding of probability may yield more than an A in statistics for Harvard students willing to try their luck in internet casinos...
This past spring the Office of Admissions reported that 70 percent of African-American applicants offered a spot in the class of 2008 accepted, an increase from the 66.5 percent yield from the previous year...