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...that in the next few weeks.”On Saturday, facing some of the best competition in the country, the No. 4 Radcliffe lightweight crew team finished in second place at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey. Both the first and second varsity boats qualified for the Grand Final race, which also featured three boats from Wisconsin and one from Lafayette.The Black and White’s runner-up finish marks the second straight year that Radcliffe has fallen just short of bringing the Cup back to Cambridge.The Wisconsin A boat crossed the finish...
...really solid performance today,” sophomore Andrew Trott said. “The team’s been working hard and the results are starting to show. With every race we improve, and it definitely helps to…have a good race, especially with good boats to race against.”The Crimson freshman eight opened the regatta for Harvard with a victory in which it also never trailed. Harvard and Dartmouth pulled away from MIT early, and the Crimson held a 4.7 second advantage with a 6:08.8 finish. Harvard’s second...
...Kenyan port employees who helped bring the crew to safety said the sailors were fearful of kidnappers even after they were well away from Somali waters. "When we were coming in," said Bernard Odemba, the Kenyan pilot who brought the Maersk Alabama to shore, "when they saw any boat coming around, it was as if they felt that maybe another group is coming to attack them. So I had to calm them down and say, 'No no no, that is our police boat; that is our one of the local boats, the friendly ones...
When the good news broke, Richard Phillips' ship, the Maersk Alabama, blew its horn three times in celebration from where it was docked in the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The crew also set off a red flare and unfurled a huge American flag at the top of the boat. Phillips, the Alabama's captain, had been rescued after nearly five days of captivity in a rescue operation in which three of the four Somali pirates holding him on a lifeboat were killed. The fourth was captured...
Kenyan port employees who helped bring the crew to safety said the sailors were fearful of kidnappers even after they were well away from Somali waters. "When we were coming in," said Bernard Odemba, the Kenyan pilot who brought the Maersk Alabama to shore, "when they saw any boat coming around, it was as if they felt that maybe another group is coming to attack them. So I had to calm them down and say, 'No no no, that is our police boat; that is our one of the local boats, the friendly ones...