Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is why some shifts in opinion are detectable. The exile community was shocked in May when the White House announced that in the future the U.S. would turn back Cuban boat people. However, polls indicated that 45% of Cuban Americans supported the change. And an April survey conducted by Florida International University showed that 63% of Miami-area Cuban Americans favor negotiations with Castro...
...right, then. Imagine a minivan towing a small boat to the beach. The minivan is Odyssey, Apollo 13's command module (named after the Stanley Kubrick film about a man lost and transformed in space); the boat is Aquarius, the lunar module (after the song from Hair, Broadway's hymn to hippie insurrection). Now imagine that, on a nowhere stretch of road, your van just about blows up. How do you get home...
Fortunately, I was not alone. There were about 150 other students there too, and it seemed as if we were all in the same boat. Administrators told us that we had been placed at 29 Garden because of certain special "qualities" we allegedly possessed that somehow made us fit for the place. We were to read into this: independence, self-reliance, a good sense of direction, street smarts...
After the heavy's B.U. meet came a dual meet against Northeastern, which was a bitter disappointment for the No. 1 eight. The Huskies, who Radcliffe had topped back on April 1, edged the Black and White by three-tenths of a second. The second varsity boat got revenge, winning in three seconds, but that was not the way Radcliffe wanted to go into Sprints...
...June 3, there was a bit of reshuffling as the top tow novice boats joined forces to become a new No. 2 varsity boat and finished third. For the heavies, four rowers have switched to become a new lightweight crew, set to race on June...