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Crew, first and foremost, is a sport about the team. But every so often on the Charles River for the Radcliffe heavyweights, there emerges a star. A few years ago this was Caryn Davies ’05, who led the heavyweights to a national championship in 2003 and earned silver in the 2004 Olympic eight, but now there is a new standout on the river for the Black and White—U23 world champion junior Esther Lofgren.Following in Davies’ footsteps, Lofgren joined the United States’ U23 national team over the past summer to compete...
...acknowledge and we do think that people regard us as a marginal segment of the population," another member of SLAM, Adaner Usmani ’08, says. But while he thinks that SLAM is not foremost in people’s minds, he believes that many of the positions taken by activist groups on campus—such as opposition to the war in Iraq or worker rights—are issues that Harvard students would likely agree with. "We’re not taking positions that are very radical at all," he says. "Why do only 20 people come...
When describing even the admittedly racist South, Schama uses phrases like “theirs was a revolution, first and foremost, mobilized to protect slavery,” taking revisionism beyond corrective steering, into an opposite view of the standard heroic American myth. Of course the reality is more complex—a fact that Schama fairly acknowledges throughout the book—but several of his contentions aim for catchphrase status at the expense of historical fairness...
...players are few, and while there are many competing runway extravaganzas (see “Overnight Couture,” page 10), the contrast is most apparent among three. Foremost among them is Eleganza, with a reputation of being risqué and entertaining. Haute draws a smaller and more fashion-conscious crowd. And this year the Harvard African Student Association (HASA) will once again put on a fashion show featuring traditional and not-so-traditional African garb...
...Trita Parsi is among the foremost U.S.-based scholars analyzing the current standoff over Iran's nuclear program. He has worked in an advisory capacity in government in both the U.S. and Sweden, and is currently the president of the National Iranian-American Council. In the course of research for his forthcoming book Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States, Parsi interviewed more than 130 leading U.S., Israeli and Iranian officials. With European efforts to broker a compromise with Iran apparently faltering, TIME.com's Tony Karon asked Dr. Parsi to parse the prospects...