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WORCESTER—For the first time in a long time, the winner’s dock belonged to somebody else.After three years and three consecutive Eastern Sprints titles, the Harvard varsity heavyweights relinquished their EARC dominance to No. 1 Princeton on a turbulent day at Lake Quinsigamond. A dramatic come-from-behind win for Harvard’s No. 1 second varsity, coupled with a third-place finish for the Crimson freshman eight, helped seal Harvard’s 27th Rowe Cup.Thunderstorms and rainfall suspended the lightweight and heavyweight varsity races for over an hour, and fans took cover...
...private suppliers ran a tabletop exercise against a fictional Category 4 hurricane named Oscar. Next up: the exercise goes live, with role players posing as residents fleeing a Category 3 storm by bus from the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center, the scene of real-life tragedy after Katrina. Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those wiped out by the hurricane are nearly finished. The result, ironically, is that the Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward, lying...
...June." Just in case, the Corps has a backup plan: pilings already stacked at the scene can be driven into the canal bed to stop storm surges--a job that would take three days to complete in the "worst case," Setliff promises. That plan, put into effect along Lake Pontchartrain before Hurricane Rita, worked well--though it was little solace for the unprotected Ninth Ward, which flooded for a second time...
...second varsity undefeated and its varsity with just one loss, the Harvard varsity program has endured the most turbulent of dual seasons—lineup changes, unexpected losses, the ups-and-downs that were never at issue in last year’s brilliant run to and beyond Lake Quinsigamond...
...Sunday, the Crimson has six minutes to render obsolete the past six weeks. The winner’s dock at Lake Quinsigamond, after all, cares little about the past...