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...top.Despite the end of season disappointment, the crew had some success last year. The Black and White rose to as high as No. 3 in the national rankings after a second-place finish at the Knecht Cup. The lightweights also tallied a second-place team finish at Eastern Sprints, as all four of its boats—the varsity eight, second varsity eight, varsity four, and novice eight—placed no worse than fourth, with the varsity four leading the way with a second-place finish.It was a mark of the team’s added depth in recent...
...pair looked back fondly on their time on the Crimson squad, in which Tyler was five-seat and Cameron six-seat in the varsity boat—nicknamed the “God Squad”—their senior year. That eight not only won Eastern Sprints, all its dual races, and the IRAs, but also went to the Lucerne World Cup right before the 2004 Olympics, beating the English and French national boats on the way to the final.Cameron also praised the Head of the Charles, mentioning the memorable one they rowed in as freshman, the first...
...season last year, there was one area in which they shined: the freshman squad’s record in spring 2008 was the stuff dreams are made of. The first freshman boat went undefeated in dual racing and finished up the season in similarly spectacular style, with victories at Eastern Sprints and the Harvard-Yale Regatta, a semifinal place in Henley Royal Regatta’s Temple Cup, and a third-place finish at IRAs to very strong California and Washington teams.“Bill [Manning] is a really good coach, and he was able to keep...
...Poland, eight poorer Eastern European countries quietly but firmly said the emission cutting plans were too expensive. The eight are heavily reliant on coal and argue that they have achieved "the vast majority" of the E.U.'s CO2 reductions by shutting down heavily polluting old industrial plants in the 1990s...
...Russia and Eastern Europe, Gazprom, based in Moscow, is the world's largest natural-gas company, providing 25% of Europe's natural gas. Another major player in Europe is Turkey's Vestel Electronics, the largest supplier of televisions on the continent...