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What began as an unremarkable foray into the world of rowing has in retrospect become a launching pad for a successful seven-year career in the sport for lightweight men’s crew captain Jeff Overington. “I started rowing in ninth grade because a few of my friends were doing it, and they needed a fourth guy to row a four,” Overington said. “We had a great coach and won all of our races, so I decided to stick with it.” Early success...
...Radcliffe lightweight crew is a program in flux.A team that had consistently won medals at the IRA National Championships, notching a bronze medal as recently as 2006, has fallen short over the past two years.In 2007, the crew’s varsity eight fell just off the medal stand, losing to a suprise Bucknell boat, which won the gold. The team was just four seconds short of third, ending the crew’s six-year run of medaling.Last spring, the program fell to a sixth- place finish, as Wisconsin regained its national championship crown.In order to respond, the crew...
...successful programs. One storied name.For the 2008-’09 Radcliffe senior captains—heavyweights Liz Demers and Anna Kendrick, along with lightweight Rebekah Kharrazi—it’s as easy as one, two, three.And this weekend, the big three will be leading their respective crews at the Head of the Charles, looking to start off their tenures with success.“It will be an indication for us to see how we’re doing, set the stage for the next year,” Kharrazi said. “We want...
This fall, the tense, compelling Fringe (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a 21st century X-Files, with a difference. The conspiracy this time is called The Pattern: someone or something is performing experiments, using humans as guinea pigs. The passengers and crew of a transatlantic flight are skeletonized by flesh-eating bacteria; a prostitute is impregnated with a fetus that gestates, painfully, to term within hours...
...minutes of last night's final debate, a sharper, more spirited John McCain took on Barack Obama. He had a clear message of low taxes and smaller government. He targeted an equally clear-cut audience: Joe the Plumber. (A real guy, who must be dodging every local news crew within 100 miles today.) McCain - henpecked by an incumbent he never liked, a dire economy he can't control and a newcomer with less baggage than the Tooth Fairy - suddenly seemed free from worry. He remembered his years as a leading man in those dramatic episodes of yesteryear - campaign-finance reform...