Word: boated
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...Burning boats on Housing Night may not be one of Harvard’s most historic traditions, but try telling that to the scores of freshmen who experienced a police crackdown in the recent Housing Day “Quad boat incident.” For several years, freshmen students have trudged to the Charles River to light small boats on fire on the eve of Housing Day in hope of securing a desired House placement. This year, however, Cambridge and Harvard police aggressively shut down the ritual. Several boats of more outlandish construction may have merited intervention...
...that we’ve worked on for the past month we’ve been in the water,” sophomore Leah Schwartz said. “We had a lot of composure today. Having a lot of confidence and keeping our heads in our own boat put us across the finish line first.” Though the water on the lake was calm, the elements did not make it easy for the rowers. “The water was flat and there wasn’t too much in terms of current or waves...
...Paddy's Day, get ready for the Scottish version - Tartan Day - on Monday, April 6. To celebrate all things plaid, Drumscot Tours has a deal on a seven-day "Castles, Whisky and the Gathering" trip, which includes tours of a whisky distillery and castles and a Loch Ness boat trip, running July 20 to 27. If you book the tour on Tartan Day, you'll get 10% off plus complimentary tickets to the Gathering, an international get-together of the clans on the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. The Gathering happens July...
...recent Sunday, Keley Hill piloted a 39-ft. (12 m) Midnight Express powerboat near the border. The boat sloshed in the 4-ft. (1.2 m) chop, running lights out to avoid detection. Supervisory agent Mark White stood on the bow, peering through night-vision goggles that revealed an empty sea clear out to Coronado island, 8 miles (13 km) away. Hill, director of the CBP's marine-interdiction unit in San Diego, busied himself scanning the green squiggles on the radar screen and radioed to agents in helicopters hovering above the coastline. "They're the bird dogs," Hill says...
There's not much hunt in it, though. If the agents sight a smuggler's boat, it's game over - the feds' boats are faster, their drivers better trained and their guns bigger, Hill explains. Typically the smugglers just surrender, as their cell phones and BlackBerrys fly overboard. "The first thing we'll see are little black things going 'splash, splash, splash,'" he says. Should boats escape notice on the water, overnight lookouts now stand watch at Torrey Pines Beach. "It's cat and mouse," Hill says. "We watch them. They watch...