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...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
...regular-season title. In the penultimate meet of the season, the EISL Championships, Harvard fell short of Princeton’s 1,393 points, totaling only 1,287 even though it stuck with the Tigers for the majority of the meet. Crimson athletes Cromwell, sophomore Geoff Rathgeber, and senior diver Danil Rybalko bagged the top three individual awards of the meet. While the EISL meet is the end of the season for most swimmers, Cromwell and Rathgeber continued onto the NCAA Championships in Atlanta. Cromwell continued his run of outstanding performances with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard...
...have air-conditioning or a refrigerator. When friends e-mail her pictures of the giant steel structures protecting London and Amsterdam, she gets riled, contemplating the "crappy" earthen mounds that shield her own city. But she's staying put. Her husband has a great job as an underwater diver in the Gulf, and she loves her friends and her work as a music librarian. "We didn't want to cop out. This is history. This is a great city." She's facing storm season, ready...
Despite a number of NCAA B cut times achieved by its the roster, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team once again qualified only two representatives to the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga.The Crimson sent sophomore diver Samantha Papadakis, who is also a Crimson editor, and junior swimmer Noelle Bassi, who also competed in the event last year. Once again, Bassi was selected to the All-America, breaking her own record in the 200-yard butterfly.“I was disappointed that more of my teammates weren’t there,” Bassi said...
...boom has its ugly-American side. Beachfront development has devastated parts of the reef around the diver's paradise of Roatn, the best-known of Honduras' storied Bay Islands. And although Antigua and Costa Rica are relatively safe, burglaries are up in Honduras, driving the development of gated communities. But Bill and Judith Allred, who in 1998 bought a pod-style home in Roatn conceived by the Canadian designer Hal Sorrenti, say common sense helps ward off crime. "This isn't St. Barts," says Judith. "You don't go out at night wearing jewels...