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...turn, so the crews start on a staggered start,” junior stroke Sarah Moore said. “We had a pretty good start, and we came off holding even with Yale at first. Virginia was harder to gauge as they were a full lane over. We were down almost about a length on each crew after they took a lot of length on the inside of the turn. We tried to handle them as best we could and stay internally focused and row our own race at our own rhythm.”“It?...
Come June, 24-year-old Japanese graduate student Yusuke Sakamoto will face an unusual final exam. While most of his classmates at Tokai University near Tokyo will be sweating out answers in a classroom, Sakamoto will be in pit lane at France's legendary Le Mans race track, hoping his 550-horsepower school project survives one of the world's great endurance races...
Sitting in his den on a leafy Jerusalem lane, Rubinger displays a collection of his most memorable images. There is his iconic shot of three grimy but awestruck Israeli soldiers staring in wonder at the Western Wall, Judaism's most sacred place, which they have just liberated. "There was such a euphoria of survival after the war," he recalls. "But it brought on the first seeds of messianism. Israelis started to say 'Who are we to give away this [captured] land, this gift of God?' " That was the turning point, says Rubinger. "Religious extremists on both sides think that...
Still, the idea of renaming Chestnut-cum-Plympton after Halberstam strikes some, including this newspaper’s leadership, as heresy. The post office can’t be too eager, either. But Cambridge has a long tradition of rechristening its thoroughfares: Holyoke Street was once Crooked Lane; Charles River Road yielded to Memorial Drive. In 1982, the Cambridge city council worried that Harvard was about to drop the Kennedy name from its School of Government. So they promptly turned the road outside the school’s front door into John F. Kennedy Street. It had three previous names...
...nearby who loosely sketches polo players for Ralph Lauren. Nearby are the famous archives, stored in an enormous hangar. The archives are organized by style and designer, and walking through the aisles is a heady experience of color fantasy and craftsmanship, a sort of fashion-world memory lane...