Word: horning
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...high adventure, last week's daring rescue on the desolate seas between New Zealand and Cape Horn cribbed a page from Melville. But coming just two months after 80-knot winds mauled a regatta sailing from Sydney to Tasmania and left six dead, Autissier's narrow escape rekindled concerns about the safety of open-seas racing. The Around Alone follows a 27,000-mile, four-stop route that begins and ends in Charleston, S.C. (see map). Two of the 87 competitors in its five quadrennial races have been lost at sea, and only 42 have completed the treacherous eight-month...
...looked as if Autissier might fare better this year. Despite early damage to her keel, mast and rudder, she had claimed the lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME...
...Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Anderson (Bottle Rocket), is a film of wonderfully conceived characters. Reflecting their smart dedication to originally, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have devised a colorful, eccentric cast in which two figures stand out as inspired creation. That first is Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman), a gangly combination of braces, horn-rimmed glasses, greasy black hair and loads of smug self-assurance. A pupil at the posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging from the fencing team to the beekeepers...
...legend. She said to him "'A girl at Harvard told us about you!'" Buschbacher thinks, "That's pretty insane that word spreads to Yale. I'm not embarrassed by it, but I am shocked by the level to which people talk about it." While Buschbacher denies tooting his own horn, he will occasionally mention his rhino-like feature in conversation. "Sometimes when we joke around I say, 'Size matters,' to win an argument. It's a convenient joke." Buschbacher adds that at parties, "It's nice to use as an icebreaker...