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...down the border, everyone skirts the fence in his own way. A professor in south Texas says he pays someone $50 a month to smuggle his mom over in a boat for Sunday dinners. He doesn't worry, though, because a federal agent down the street does the same for his housekeeper. "Trying to stop this migration is like trying to stop a wave with a Dixie cup," says Raul Berrios, whose wife Kim runs the popular Renaissance Cafe in Bisbee, Ariz. "It's going to be impossible." There is a whisper network in Bisbee of codes and messages telling...
...Overall it was kind of up-and-down again,” senior skipper Jessica Baker said. “The conditions on the lake were tough, really shifty, and it was a really challenging place to sail.” Baker was joined in the boat by freshman crew Lauren Brants. The two finished in seventh place for the A-division, while the familiar freshman tandem of skipper Roberta Steele and crew Christina Cordeiro also took seventh. The wind caused a number of capsizes for a struggling women’s team that has just two more regattas before...
...time. One is a tiny baby sitting in his mother's lap. The other is a smiling, tough-looking, pompadoured fellow standing behind her. The baby would grow up to be Sebastian Junger, the mega-selling author of The Perfect Storm, the true story of a fishing boat lost at sea. The smiling guy was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. History would come to know him as the Boston Strangler...
...season, capturing the Rowlands Cup in Cambridge on March 24. Radcliffe defeated both Northeastern and Boston College to claim the Cup, the eighth consecutive time that the Black and White has won the prize. Radcliffe won four of the six races run on the afternoon, taking the second varsity boat and both novice eights. The varsity eight completed the 2,000-meter course in 6:36.5, good enough for an open-water victory over its two challengers. The heavyweights will next travel to Princeton to compete for the Class of ‘74 Cup on Saturday, while the lightweights...
...came to Harvard in the first place. Scalp tickets outside of Fenway and seat-hop to the fourth row behind the visiting team’s dugout. Go visit the glass flowers that your mom always harasses you about seeing. Go be corny and touristy and take a Swan boat ride in the Public Gardens. If you took the Michael Bolton advice, this cannot be too corny of a suggestion...