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...confidence has come slowly, but the results have been immediately apparent. Harvard has a potential four-year starter at defensive end, one who spent the summer doing daily two-hour running and lifting workouts and has made the Crimson weight room a second home. His intensity caught the attention of the Harvard coaches, who were thrilled to find a work ethic that matched his size...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CONTRRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bryant Fills In on Football's Injured Defense | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

With the aid of a translator, Robina Akther and Maksuda, two women workers dressed in traditional garments, spoke about their 14-hour shifts, physical abuse and pay of 14 to 17 cents an hour to an audience of 35 to 40 in Yenching Auditorium...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Workers Tell of Poor Conditions | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

...It’s a little like setting a speed limit,” he said. “50 miles per hour is always safer than 55 or 60. The problem is finding the right balance...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pollution Threatens Charles | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

...regatta, as each school launched two full-rig dinghies, a 420 and a Flying Junior and two Lasers in 20 races. Sailors had to contend with a biting fall chill and brisk 12- to 22-knot winds while on the water for consecutive eight- to 10-hour days...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stiff Winds, Stiff Competition | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

Flash forward: at the helm of his yacht Tenacious, Ted Turner battled 40-ft. waves for four hours in a storm that claimed 19 lives and disabled 210 of 302 vessels in a four-day ocean race in 1979. Turner not only lived to successfully launch an unlikely venture--a 24-hour cable news network called CNN, in 1980--but also won the sea race and later said that even during the worst of the storm his mind was on finishing first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Made America Rich? | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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