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After a four-month layoff kept Harvard at bay, the Crimson sailing team is ready to get its feet wet, lift anchor and set its course for the spring season riding the tide of recent successes to Brown’s Team Racing Invitational...
...It’s good mentally to get some distance from it—it’s not like sailing’s off our mind,” says senior skipper Clemmie Everett. “It’s given us a chance to lift weights and work on cardiovascular conditioning. Spring is very short, but it tends to be very physical and intense, and we have to be in good physical shape...
Gibson has often played heroes like this. In his starmaking Mad Max films he was the postapocalyptic angry young man. In Conspiracy Theory he spouted eccentric political and religious scenarios ("Somebody's got to lift the festering scab that is the Vatican," he barks at two startled nuns in his taxi), one of which, when it turns out to be true, earned him a death sentence from today's Sanhedrin, the CIA. In Signs, the Gibson character saw alien creatures attacking his family; The Passion's Jesus sees Satan everywhere, clouding men's minds, taking the form of snakes...
...been terrorizing and murdering Haitian citizens in anticipation of a rebel assault. By Monday morning the joint rebel-police squads were finished, and Philippe rode triumphantly into Port-au-Prince in the back of a pickup as crowds chanted ?Libert?!? ?He is the second Toussaint L?Ouverture!? said fork-lift driver Andre Charles, 36, referring to the hero who won Haiti?s independence from France 200 years ago. ?He delivered...
...European Capital of Culture for 2004, the Italian government poured in $40 million for more than 100 special events from jazz concerts to history classes. And Via Garibaldi, which housed the noble families of what was once one of Europe's richest cities, has undergone a multimillion-euro face-lift that would make Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi proud. Fa?ades have been scrubbed and frescoes restored to their original splendor, quaint courtyards and sweeping staircases now shine anew, streetlights have been added to enhance the architectural features, and busts and statues have been tucked into the palaces' endless niches. Get lost...