Word: lighter
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...site of the Harvard-Yale regatta. This year, with the first varsity, second varsity and freshman boats all receiving funding for Henley, training continued all the way through this month. Two weeks of tough workouts continued in Cambridge until the team left for England on June 22, followed by lighter workouts in the days leading up to the races...
...finding out what to do with the rowers from the second varsity, almost entirely made up of sophomores who were ineligible to race in the Temple Cup because of their victory there last year. The first plan was to create one coxed four for the Britannia Cup and one lighter coxless four for the Visitors’ Challenge...
...Helder, Le Squer and Savoy - trained in old-fashioned apprenticeships, learning the techniques and traditions that form the backbone of classical French cookery. Just because the methods are traditional doesn't mean menus - and the minds behind them - will be. Helder says today's cooking tends to be far lighter than the heavy dishes of the past. Berasategui notes the use of new ingredients like lemongrass. And listen to Le Squer, of Paris' Ledoyen, who says his rigorous training makes it "impossible for me to present a dish that is anything less than perfect." The surf crashing on the rocky...
Traditional animation has already seen a tentative revival with DreamWorks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Lilo & Stitch is lighter, bouncier, loads more fun. So let's predict that this new Disney film will be an old-fashioned, hand-drawn hit. If traditional animators are not to be the modern equivalents of monks creating illuminated manuscripts--craftsmen in a world whose technology made their skills anachronistic--it had better be. --By Richard Corliss
...hierarchy in women’s collegiate squash were like boxing’s lighter weight divisions, then Harvard would certainly have weighed in a class above the rest of the Ivy League and the likes of Williams and Amherst. Still, the Crimson would have been a flyweight, as it never quite could pack on that last pound—or capture that last point—and always found itself just below the Bantams...