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...precedents tend to involve either topless women or dreary, behind-the-mike camera shots. "When beloved radio personalities make the jump to TV," says IRA GLASS, the beloved-by-the-bookish host of public radio's This American Life, "it's a nightmare." Yet after rejecting two offers from broadcast networks, Glass is finally attempting a televised version of his program for Showtime. Won over, he says, by the cable channel's yearlong courtship, Glass is two-thirds finished with a pilot presentation due in June. The trickiest task, he says, is translating the radio stories into a visual medium...
...puts Harvard at the top of the EARC and U.S. Rowing polls going into the Eastern Sprints. The Crimson has captured the Sprints title the last two years, with both victories followed by open-water wins at the IRA national championships...
...second dual race of the season, when Harvard forfeited an early lead to Georgetown and never made it up, falling to the Hoyas by just over one second. But in the last dual race of the season, the Crimson showed the resilience necessary for the upcoming Eastern Sprint and IRA regattas...
Then Stephens returned to Cambridge in the fall of 2004, just months after the Crimson varsity lightweights finished fifth at the IRA national championship regatta...
Good times abound for Stephens and the No. 1 Harvard lightweight crew, which enters as the solid favorite in this weekend’s race against Princeton and Yale. The Crimson will likely take its No. 1 ranking into the Eastern Sprints and IRA national championships, where it has won in every odd-numbered year since...