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...BACKWASH On the airwaves, Pepsi ads with David Beckham and other star soccer players were withdrawn because of their surfing themes. American Express nixed a commercial featuring surfer Laird Hamilton's gushing about big waves, and British Airways suspended a month's worth of holiday-package...
...high. But with the boards and techniques available then, it was not possible to go much higher. In the '70s and '80s surfers instead sought to conquer challenges on smaller waves with a range of turning and tube-riding maneuvers. Then in the early '90s came Laird Hamilton, a blond, 6-ft. 3-in., 220-lb. former model and surfing prodigy, who brought big-wave surfing crashing back onto center stage...
...It’s hard for me to believe that enrollments in our classes won’t decline,” Laird says...
...thing that was most disheartening is that Larry Summers sort of announced [an SPH move in his letter] as if it were a fait accompli, before people at the School of Public Health knew it,” Laird says...
...Laird worries that given the number of Longwood students SPH classes typically draw, course enrollments will be jeopardized...