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...Houston for a 1960 game, the team had to stay at University of Houston dorms because no hotels would accept black players. Kemp joined other teammates in bolting a movie theater that restricted black members to the balcony. Four years later, Kemp arrived in New Orleans as team captain for the 1964 American Football League All-Star game. After watching black players turned away from nightclubs and "white" taxis, he supported a boycott of the city. The game was moved to Houston, which had progressed farther along the path of desegregation...
...total to three wins over the two days of competition.“It was really a team effort out there this weekend,” Garrity said. “We stepped up for each other when we needed to.”In the A division, sophomore captain and skipper Alan Palmer teamed up with fellow second-year Quincy Bock, who took care of crewing duties. The pair finished ninth in the division, as they finished in the top five in half of their eight races, placing in the top three on two occasions.Harvard can now look forward...
...parties have thus left the door wide open for smaller rivals and independent candidates to move in and claim some of the youth vote for themselves. In Bangalore, G.R. Gopinath, an army captain and founder of one of India's first budget airlines, is promising to bring corporate efficiency and military discipline to city government. Meera Sanyal, the head of ABN Amro in India, was motivated by the November terrorist attacks to run for office in south Mumbai. Even Advani, the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate, is facing an independent challenge, from Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer and prominent social activist...
...thing that I feel most summed her up is that she never backed down from a challenge—be it something huge like her torn ACL in rugby, or something as small as an arm wrestling match,” Radcliffe Rugby co-captain Morgan M. W. Jessee ’09 wrote in an e-mail...
...grad for her contribution to the rowing community. “I think she’s the most decorated lightweight rower in the US, so it’s an incredible honor to be racing for a cup after her name,” said Rebekah Kharrazi, senior captain of the Radcliffe lightweight team. “She’s been such a force in rowing, I think it’s definitely something that should have been awarded to her a long time ago.” Coming off a win against then-No. 2 Princeton...