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...newspaper properties. Despite his family’s Harvard legacy, Bingham encountered failure. He was blackballed from the Gas (now the Delphic) after drunkenly kicking a pay telephone to the ground, and though he rowed varsity crew, in his senior year he would be demoted to the third boat. As he would throughout his life, he struggled with reading.“He was dyslexic, which caused him a big problem,” says Nicholas Daniloff ’56, Bingham’s freshman year roommate. “He really didn’t take...
...dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same boat of a May 4 conclave between the two men, then angrily returned home, telling Kabila that if he wanted to meet he would have to travel to Cape Town. Within hours Kabila was there--a sign both of respect for the South African leader and of his desire for international credibility...
...only reason the sport is not more widespread now is the lack of equipment," Campbell says. No dragon boats are currently manufactured in the U.S., so most teams have to import them from Germany, although more affordable models from other European and Asian manufacturers are catching up in quality. In the meantime, a Canadian marketing company, Great White North Communications, is filling the void. The Toronto-based firm owns a fleet of 40 boats and charges some $30,000 to provide consulting, technical support and boat hire for dragon-boat festivals...
...fastest-growing markets for dragon-boat racing is the corporate retreat in need of a little excitement. "You can have a big sales meeting, boring meetings for three days, and then one afternoon, we can work with the event planner and produce a four-hour mini-dragon-boat regatta for 500 people," Kerkmann says. It's one of the few sports that can accommodate people of any size and any level of fitness, as long as they can keep their paddle dipping in and out of the water in time with their teammates. "There are no heroes...
Corporations are proving to be among the most enthusiastic dragon boaters in the country. Kaiser Permanente, which sees dragon boating as an exercise in team building, has shelled out almost $40,000 for two boats and enough paddles and life vests for two teams. One boat went to its longest-paddling team of employees, the KP Dragons, and the other is shared among Pollonais-Britt's Dragon Healers and other crews in the California Dragon Boat Association. Teams like the Wal-Mart Warriors, VeRizing Dragons and Starbucks Waverunners have also entered festivals around the country, in competition against schools, police...