Word: gracefulness
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Harvard hosted the co-ed division of the ACCs this weekend, where the Crimson took eighth place over 10 races. Junior captain and skipper Alan Palmer and classmate crew Grace Charles dominated the A division, placing fifth overall and posting both a first- and second-place finish...
...baseball pose has a balletic grace at odds with the savage power that the best pound-for-pound professional boxer on earth exhibits in the ring. "Best pound-for-pound" is the mantra intoned with every story about Pacquiao. It sounds strange because he has never been bound by the laws of physics. In the past eight years, he has risen through six weight divisions to win just as many world championships. At the stadium, his promoters have arranged for the Filipino to make official his plan to fight Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto for a seventh title, the welterweight...
...Crimson lineup included skippers junior captain Alan Palmer, junior Teddy Himler, and sophomore Brendan Kopp. Junior Grace Charles, sophomore Annie DeAngelo, and Konstadt took care of the crewing duties in the team race style of racing, which will be contested much more frequently in the spring...
...necklines and waistlines but not hemlines, which climbed upward until a skirt became little more than a strap. Professional athletes flaunted their immodesty, egos on steroids bashing at the plate and dancing in the end zones; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, whose name was synonymous with greatness and grace? Developers etched their names into their towers in letters 6 ft. high; financiers built cottages the size of cathedrals. Politicians talked louder but did less, or declared Missions Accomplished that had barely begun. (See sports pictures taken by Walter Iooss...
Cities on both sides of this line are full of modern skyscrapers and designer retailers from the West, but the statues that grace their parks and squares make it clear which side of the line one is on. In Budapest, Lenin can only be found in the kitschy Statue Park outside the city, but he still stands in the center of Simferopol, the capital of the Autonomous Region of Crimea in Ukraine, and his name graces buildings and even the metro system in Moscow...