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...rowed much better today than in our practices this last week. The Empacher (E1) sets up better than the Vespoli boat (although from 2-seat I can still feel it leaning to port a little), and my seat doesn't stick like it did in the other boat. Tonight as I'm going to sleep I'll be telling myself, "Sit up, arms away quick, jump on the catch, race...
First day back after Sunday's disgusting defeat. I was back in stroke, although I guessed from the boat's lineup that it was going to be a technique row--skill and drill--without much pressure. Cool evening; the sun was setting as we docked and the coxswain was worried about being out on the Charles without a light on the boat. We did a lot of 6s work, some pause drills, slap drills. Then some 2 to 3 minute pieces at 2/3 to full pressure. The shoes in the boat were placed too high and we were rushing into...
...went upstream and did some 2/3, 3/4, full pieces, 22 to 24 strokes per minute. Beat the other crew pretty solidly on the first and third, and only marginally on the second piece, although we were helped by the other boat's inexperienced coxswain, whose creative steering maneuvers included running the boat up on the sandbank between Arsenal and North Beacon on the first piece. After practice they said they heard the skeg drag along the bottom, but it stayed attached...
...water for a fourth consecutive year late Tuesday, despite Senator John McCain's no-surrender vow. All 45 Democrats voted against the maneuver by the GOP leadership, but they were joined by only eight Republicans, leaving them seven votes short of the 60 they needed to defeat the filibuster. Although the bill's sponsors - Senators McCain and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) - had narrowed down the legislation into a ban on the unlimited soft-money contributions that allow corporations to pour millions of dollars into party coffers, the vote followed last year's pattern...
...year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just about everybody ? except marketers and advertisers ? feel good, says TIME Digital editor Lev Grossman. "Everyone?s in favor of protecting children, and although these roadblocks might slow the progression of e-commerce in some imperceptible way, in the long run, it won?t make a difference...