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...second varsity eight grand final. While Brown and BU made strong showings for their coast, the fifth-place Crimson exhibited competitive spirit in the face of adversity. The night before the grand final, captain Teddy Schreck was struck with an apparent bout of dehydration and remained in the team hotel on Saturday.“I was particularly impressed with the aggressiveness of their race after having to make the last-minute change,” Parker said. “They raced really well, I thought. I was very proud of them.”Schreck?...
...Patterson and simultaneously withdrawing cold turkey from a prescription antidepressant when suddenly I had the sensation of an airbag trying to inflate inside the tight confines of my cranium. Light sources started to leave smeary trails across my field of vision. I finished the interview, went back to my hotel, mixed and drank the contents of two bottles randomly chosen from the minibar, and went to bed. The next morning, I was fine...
Rock musician Jay Bennett, 45, joined Wilco in 1995 at the behest of the band's front man, Jeff Tweedy, and helped the group create several critically acclaimed albums, including Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2002. That year he left the band amid tension with Tweedy over Wilco's musical direction...
...bustling Sukhumvit Road, among the ramshackle stalls that line that tourist-magnet thoroughfare. I landed one knockoff Fred Perry polo shirt in navy blue and a pirated DVD copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Both purchases were mildly disappointing: the shirt, once I tried it on back at the hotel, appeared to have been made not from cotton but from itchy polyester - hardly ideal for the sticky Thai climate. The Hollywood blockbuster had been dubbed into Russian. I cursed the waste of 10 bucks on shoddy merchandise. By the following afternoon, this buyer's remorse had morphed into full-blown...
...While I am heading back to the hotel in a taxi, one of Bangkok's countless motorbike taxis weaves erratically through the traffic. A young woman rides sidesaddle behind its rider, and I flinch at the potential for tragedy. There was a complete scooter on display in the museum, and Gautier had informed me that every single component - tires, brakes, fuel tank and all - had been manufactured on the sly. As the taxi veers east onto Sukhumvit Road, the traders are busy erecting their stalls for another evening of busy commerce. But me? Tonight I'll hole...