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With 60 points overall, the heavies trailed champion No. 8 Brown by 16 and No. 1 Princeton, and ended up finishing in the same position as it did last year. The Black and White placed a boat in the top five in every race...
Harvard had waited for eight years, and the varsity lightweights took that bow ball and ran with it. The Crimson’s 0.2-second win secured the varsity’s first Eastern Sprints title since 1997, a drought that included three national champion crews which never won at Lake Quigsigamond...
...computer," he says--but he convinced them the old-fashioned way: with cold cash. When he placed third at a major tournament in Dallas, he went home, slapped a check on the table and said, "I won $4,000 playing a video game!" Since then, Wendel has been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, and all over the U.S. and Asia. Outfits like the CPL are bent on becoming big-time...
...Greater intellects than mine - say, the Village Voice's Jim Hoberman, an articulate champion of Van Sant's recent work - will make a case for this movie. But it's a mystery to me how following a young man as he mutters and meanders, or waiting for him to trudge up to and past the camera, advances movie art. This isn't the art of telling a story through picture; it's loitering with intent...
...Harvard second varsity also enters the Sprints races as a defending champion, although the 2005 dual season was an up-and-down one for the Crimson. The second varsity finds itself at No. 6 heading into the weekend and will face a No. 1 Navy crew in the morning heat...