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Here is as close to intercollegiate athletic bliss as I got: sitting alone in a leaky wooden box anchored to the dock. This experience offered inconclusive proof as to the happiness factor of playing sports...
...with a camera strolled along the dock. “How ya’ doin’” he said to me. I don’t know why he asked. I was sitting in a sinking wooden box. I smiled at him and hoped he would trip and fall into the river...
...fumbled my way out of the training-barrel and insisted that I was ready to try rowing in a boat that moves. I carried the oars down the dock and my instructor and I carried the wherry, or beginner sculling shell that is less-difficult to tip over, down together. He showed me how to get in and then sculled around in a circle, showing me how to turn and land on the dock. At this point, I just wanted to get it over with. I wanted to Make the Most learning to scull for free with a Harvard...
...down on the seat and glide away. But I could not contort like that. It might have worked better if I hadn’t assumed that it would be easy. But when I finally got one foot in the hull and another clinging in a panic to the dock still, I decided to improvise...
Democrats are getting in on the act. During their Boston convention, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will be the host of a late-night concert party called Rockin' on the Dock of the Bay, with proceeds going to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. According to a brochure for the event obtained by TIME, $100,000 donors will get 100 free tickets, backstage passes to meet the rock band, a "premium bar" and the chance to groove with Democratic Senators. Steve Patterson, Lincoln's campaign manager, insists his boss sees the party only as "an opportunity to raise substantial funds...