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...John Carlos made on the podium. Had Hoffman been booted the night before the final, his crew would have likely elected to forfeit rather than row without him. The IOC eventually cleared him due to lack of evidence, but Hoffman and the Harvard boat finished last in the Grand Final the next day. Hoffman’s tril the Crimson boat had made its social stance known as early in July—two months before the Games began. Hoffman and Harvard oarsman Cleve Livingston ’68 met with Harry Edwards, co-founder of the Olympic Project...
...want to put ourselves in a position to win a medal,” junior co-captain Liz Demers says, referring to the Black and White’s 11th-place effort at the NCAAs. “The next step is to get ourselves to the Grand Finals.”The crew is poised, but it is also young. Two of the leaders of the team, one commodore and one captain, are juniors. Radcliffe graduated four seniors from the top two eights last year. As a result, the Black and White will be asking much from its younger...
...crew’s time of 7:07.7 in the Grand Finals at Eastern Sprints earned the novice eight a gold medal and proved the fastest time of any Radcliffe boat on the river that...
...Bok’s speech, less than 900 words long, would be dwarfed by the grandeur of Rudenstine’s and the exuberance of Summers’. Delivered to just 110 people in the grand Faculty Room of University Hall, Bok’s reserve hinted at the tumult that had occupied the University—and that room itself—only a few years before...
...Tree of Smoke.” The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing...