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This week marks the centenary of one of the most significant events in Japan's modern history, but you wouldn't know it walking Tokyo's streets. On May 27-28, 1905, Japan's fledgling navy soundly defeated Russia's Baltic Fleet, sinking 21 ships in two days and ending the bloody Russo-Japanese War. The Battle of Tsushima exploded the idea of European military superiority and established Japan as an Asian world power for the next four decades, until the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?just 200 km south of Tsushima?put an end to the Japanese...
Schlitz typically crews for junior captain and 2004 All-American skipper Vincent Porter, and the duo has usually constituted the Crimson’s A-division in spring semester fleet racing...
...Harvard co-ed sailing team just qualified for the ICSA North American championships in both team and fleet racing, and accolades have already started to fill its sails...
With the graduation of collegiate Sailor of the Year E. Cardwell Potts IV ’04 last spring and Porter’s semester-long absence in Rome, Johnson rose to skipper the A-division in fleet racing—and, at the helm of a Laser, to take second in the singlehanded national championships...
...adapted pretty well. It was definitely a really unusual regatta because our regular fleet racing crews—[junior Ruth Schlitz] and [sophomore Kristen Lynch] didn’t sail all weekend,” Schubert said. “Luckily, we had that depth...