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...kind of odd how I came to row, but I’m glad I did it,” he says.When Benkreira arrived at Harvard, he once again found himself in a unique situation.The vast majority of college rowers are white, hailing from prestigious East Coast prep schools, Europe or Australia, and occasionally the American Midwest.Benkreira, a black oarsman who earned his rowing stripes at a public school program in urban Washington, D.C., hardly fit the typical billing.“My freshman year I was the only black kid in the boathouse,” he says.Once again...
...Hardcore' Scene," included a misleading description of filmmaker Paul Rachman's involvement in the Slamdance Film Festival, which he founded in 1994. Rachman did screen his 2006 film "American Hardcore" at the Sundance Film Festival, rather than at the concurrent Slamdance. However, Rachman still serves as the East Coast director of Slamdance...
...retuned for the piece using a system that is alien to most listeners. As a result, the amplified violin combines with the orchestra to create weird, exotic, and intoxicating harmonies. One might think that after such an endearing tribute to California, Adams has all but forgotten his native East Coast. Yet the second piece on the album is “My Father Knew Charles Ives,” a musical memoir of sorts, recalling his youth in New England. The first movement, “Concord,” opens with a quizzical yet plaintive trumpet solo...
...topic that never came up during the speech and subsequent question period was Hurricane Katrina. Chertoff oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose response to flooding in the Gulf Coast region was widely derided as inadequate...
...continue to enjoy in this district," Jefferson said at the red-bean-and-hot-dog-fueled opening of his New Orleans campaign headquarters this month. The election could hinge on the 40,000 displaced voters who drove in or voted absentee in the last mayoral race, helping Nagin coast to a second term. "We know who those voters are, we can find them, we can talk to them," Jefferson said. "Before we were just shooting blind, but now we have a road map to the voters. And of course the mayor will be helpful, because most of them voted...