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...Lofgren joined the United States’ U23 national team over the past summer to compete in the Junior World Championships in Belgium. After a month of training with the nation’s best, Lofgren helped the U.S. beat the best on the river, as the crew claimed gold in the varsity eight final with a 2.3-second win over Germany in the Grand Final.And the victory was from start to finish—an impressive feat for an American squad that usually falls behind the blistering pace set by European crews at the beginnings of international races...
...springtime achievements is quickly silenced by the impending winter, one that promises to mute all IRA speculation until the warmer days of early March begin to thaw the Charles. So it is that in October, the past often does the talking. But the Harvard varsity lightweights, left without IRA gold medals for three consecutive years, have found little solace in recollection.In Newell Boathouse, the current Crimson varsity lightweights with IRA gold medals are few. The last time the Harvard lightweight varsity eight won a national title, this year’s seniors were filling out college applications and racing...
...narrowest of photo finishes to Cornell—the same crew that had turned Sprints into a lopsided race for second two weeks earlier. The Big Red had the advantage of racing in a longer boat, and the IRA officials had the unenviable task of awarding one gold medal into a race in which there were two valid champions.“I know we got the short end of the stick, but that race at IRAs last year—I’ve never been a part of an effort that intense and that focused...
...tactics like “speed-throughs,” in which actors run through scenes in fast forward to help with pacing and memorization. We did occasional speed-throughs and specifically told the actors to mess around and have fun, and we found comedic gold. When you don’t take it seriously you allow yourself to take risks that you wouldn’t take otherwise. A lot of our best parts came from the speed-throughs—in one case, one of the actors decided to do a scene like it was from...
Borat CELLULOID GOLD Makes me want to get up and cheer. Patton Oswalt—the funniest stand-up comedian in America—saw a preview screening of this and said that he made the projectionist stop midway through because he was laughing too hard. I don’t actually laugh at the trailer, I just marvel at it. It makes you forget about the inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust...