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...hold on a mo', mates. A shrewdly unsettling tack by a New Zealand banker, Michael Fay, aims to sink San Diego's big party. When Fay sent his unconventional fiberglass New Zealand into the elimination series in the last go-around, Conner tweaked the Kiwis, intimating they "wanted to cheat" their way to victory with design legerdemain. Within seven months, Fay had conceived a comeuppance from Down Under...
Since 1958 yachtsmen around the world have informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...
...backwinded San Diego crew at first stonewalled the challenge. Then Fay hauled them into court in New York City, home port for the Cup's original deed of gift, with an unexpected ploy. The deed specifies that a challenger may be built any old way, so long as she measures no more than 90 ft. on the waterline, which just happens to be the K boat's dimension. The deed also provides that the Cup is forfeit if the challenge is not met in ten months. After a judge confirmed these conditions two weeks ago, Sail America's Thomas Ehman...
This summer, Harvard removed or encapsulated asbestos at more than 20 University sites, including North House, McKay and Jefferson laboratories, Fay House, and the basements of Story and Dana Halls. Asbestos can cause cancer when inhaled...
Swett adds that although the bond she feels with other Radcliffe women is not tangible or easily describable, she finds a concrete sense of community in Radcliffe College. "I see a small college atmosphere within Fay House. It's a place where you can walk in and people know your name," she says...