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...contrast in terms of training and technical focus on the water. “In high school, [the Head of the Charles] was the culmination of all the training prior to the race,” Larsen-Strecker says. “Fall season would start two weeks into August, four weeks earlier than here, [and] Head of the Charles would be the highlight of the fall. Everything was less exciting.”As opposed to high school rowing, the regatta is a celebratory and light-hearted one at the college level, since it occurs just a few weeks...
...Stevens says. “I’m very pleased that she has the confidence in me to lead the program until June.”Stevens comes from an equally impressive rowing background. Stevens rowed at Yale from 1987 to 1991, where he received the August L. Bladgen Award “for representing and enhancing the tradition of rowing at Yale.” For five years, Stevens served as the girls’ varsity coach and program director of Wayland Weston Rowing Association, a non–profit organization dedicated to teaching young people...
...attractive. There are major gas pockets in China stocks, which are trading on mainland bourses at levels reminiscent of the heady days of the dotcom bubble. Hong Kong's stock exchange, where many China companies are listed, is experiencing similar exuberance, having risen more than 40% since mid-August. Soaring markets like these are getting a lot of press. But don't make the mistake of assuming all emerging markets are overvalued just like they were 10 years ago, right before the last bubble popped. That would be like driving using only your rearview mirror...
...spent the last two weeks of August in Israel, and while some people in this country may laugh at Ahmadinejad, Israelis take very seriously his threat to wipe Israel off the map. Perhaps when people are within firing range of Iranian missiles, they develop a different point of view. Ross H. Stemer, Roswell...
...approve a state-funded textbook for nondevotional Bible instruction. The state school board recently included The Bible and Its Influence (a text some civil libertarians actually applaud for steering clear of church-state violation) on its approved list of texts. The book could be in Alabama schools starting August...