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...knew going into the final we had to row a little better,” Blomquist said. “[The semifinal] only gave Wisconsin and Cal a sour taste and they’d be gunning for us and it made the other crews want to chase us down. We went in thinking we’d have to race as hard as we could for the full 2000 meters...
...says Linda Monterrey, who attends with Gidget, a scrappy, petite Chihuahua mix. At Manhattan's Doggie-Do salon (seriously, they love puns), owners can hold dog birthday parties and bark mitzvahs (you believe me now?) with printed invitations, gift registries and a game called ice hockey, in which dogs chase a slippery liver snack frozen in a block of ice across the floor. Apparently it's not easy to come up with a pun for a frozen-liver game...
...star investment banker would be a career-capping accomplishment for many. But that's just where Richardson, 40, got going. She recently left J.P. Morgan Chase, where she helped direct Comcast's acquisition of AT&T Broadband, to join buyout specialists Providence Equity Partners. Her main mandate is to spot deals on media and communications assets for the Rhode Island-based firm to scoop up. She will also help acquired firms accomplish their business plans...
...even as volcanic tremors begin knocking plates off tables, shrouding ships in ash and making compasses spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when the big day comes, ravenous tidal waves chase the locals up cliffs and strand a hapless Dutch gunship a mile and a half inland, its crew of 28 dead on arrival...
...with 500 meters remaining, time was rapidly disappearing. The Bulldogs had begun to fade, slowly dropping back into a three-boat chase pack with Columbia and Harvard, but Princeton would relinquish no more of its advantage...