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Neff, in his first tournament as a skipper, and crewman Kevan Gaughan guided the Crimson boat past 14 opponents in their bid for the crown. "Terry's performance was outstanding," coach Mike Horn said after the races. "He and the other fine freshmen will keep Harvard in good shape in the future...
...Cliffe crew. Marie Roehm and Bambi Putnam, supported Grant and Angell through each race. "I'm very proud of the team," said coach Horn. "Winning the BU trophy is the equivalent of winning a greater Boston championship...
...Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some 80 coats of lacquer-the dangerously toxic sap from a Japanese relative of poison ivy. Lacquer is slow drying; it had to be left for days or even weeks between coats, and laboriously burnished with charcoal and powdered deer horn. To examine these objects is to realize how vast a language of craft has been lost to Japan, and to the world, since the 19th century...
...warrior rabbi who doggedly earned his paratroop wings after breaking his leg in his first jump. During the Six-Day War, he made a point of trying to be first wherever he went -to the Wailing Wall, for instance, where he sounded the shofar (the traditional ram's horn). He is also admired as an astute scholar and consummate finder of Halakhah loopholes that more easily accommodate Orthodox observance to a technological world...
...engravings include a rich but baffling array of symbols. The most frequently recurring images are horned figures-what De Lumley calls "stylized cattle." There are also daggers, crosslike inscriptions, stars and geometric forms, all of which may have had religious significance. Only a few hundred of the 37,000 engravings catalogued thus far portray human figures: one example, known as the "Chief of the Tribe," shows a man formed almost entirely out of horn symbols...