Word: crews
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...Parker, though, it is not just a continuum--each crew is different--although he diplomatically hedges when asked to name the highlight of his coaching career...
...think I look back most fondly at the victory in the Adams Cup when I was rowing for the University of Pennsylvania as a sophomore," says Parker, recalling his favorite memory as a rower. "That year, we beat a Navy crew that had gone undefeated for four straight years and it sent a message to everyone that we were a fast crew...
...violence. Its distinctiveness is almost purely a matter of style. The pace is slow and hypnotic, the atmosphere suffused with creepy foreboding, the emotions eerily heightened. The news of Laura Palmer's murder inspires spasms of grief in everyone from the girl's mother to the crew-cut school principal, who bursts into tears after announcing her death over the p.a. system. In other hands, this might be melodramatic; in Lynch's, it has the scalding intensity of a nightmare...
...crew really the "ultimate collegiate sport"? If it were, then what are hundreds of equally gifted athletes doing in other sports I refuse to submit to the idea that crew is a sport that somehow should be elevated above all of the other athletic opportunities that are offered at Harvard...
Harvard University, first and foremost, is an academic institution. If students choose to spend their time in the pursuit of intellecutal aspirations, those choices are understandable, commendable, and worthy of at least as much respect as Katz is asking for crew, if not more...