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...dock must go through Princeton, which finished second to Harvard at last year’s Eastern Sprints. In an April dual race against the Tigers, the Crimson enjoyed its finest race of the season, overcoming an early six-seat deficit to come away with an emphatic, two-boat-length victory. Harvard, then No. 4, shot to No. 1 in the national polls and hasn’t let up since...
...both varsity races, Harvard is near the top of every hypothesized list of finishers. The Crimson has overcome considerable deficits against quality dual-competition throughout the season, relying upon a powerful middle 1,000 meters to erase any deficit off of the start. The second varsity overcame near boat-length deficits against Navy and Princeton. The first varsity powered through Yale after yielding four seats in the race’s first 1,000 meters...
Despite these differences, Morrow goes to great length to find similarities among the three main characters. Both Kennedy and Nixon had siblings who died young, for example. JFK and Johnson both had voracious sexual appetites—as Morrow reminds us time and time again. Kennedy said he could not sleep without having had sex. While his wife Jacqueline was delivering their first child stillborn, JFK and a fellow senator were entertaining women on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Johnson too had many affairs, but he stands out more for his trademark crudeness. “[H]e liked...
...this isn't like Britney Spears going brunet. Portman, the exotically coiffed Padm Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, allowed her petite pate to be shaved on camera in Berlin last week, a process she describes as "really exciting." The 23-year-old's shoulder-length chestnut locks were sheared for a prison scene in this fall's futuristic drama V for Vendetta. In this next film from the makers of the Matrix trilogy, Portman plays a suspected terrorist in a totalitarian state. Days after the shoot, she says, "I can't stop rubbing my head...
...suspect that the funds for the buildings themselves will not be very prominent, given the length of time required for the physical planning and construction itself,” Rapier said...