Word: lightweight
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...After four semesters of missed quorums and lightweight advocacy, the Assembly asked then-Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. ’59 to appoint a group of undergraduates and faculty to investigate the state of student governance at the College. Meeting 12 times in the 10 months following its foundation in May 1980, the Committee to Review College Governance—more commonly known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations...
Radcliffe should have known. The few who follow women’s lightweight crew understand the nature of the sport in which anything can happen. With a field that is growing by the year, as more and more schools put out varsity eights to compete, the sport is wide open, and surprise finishes are beginning to become the norm. Never was this more evident than on Saturday at the IRA women’s national championships. Moving out of obscurity and into the national spotlight, the Bucknell Bisons won their first-ever national title, winning the lightweight Grand Finals with...
Ocean's Thirteen is the second sequel of a remake of a heist movie that was considered lightweight even by the standards of a lightweight era. But if you think the heft of the material had any effect on the seriousness with which the all-star ensemble cast prepared for their roles-well, you'd be right. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down in Cannes with a very loose George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and series newcomer Ellen Barkin-in her first film role in quite some time and, in case you forgot, kind of a live wire...
...women’s water polo team, was “overpowered” by the Hartwick College team in a game that ended glumly, 16-1, Hartwick. A sports article the same day quoted an editorial editor, who is also a coxswain on the men’s lightweight crew team. (The paper may not be showing its staffers that much favor. The coxswain was misquoted; a correction ran in the next issue...
WORCESTER—Yesterday just didn’t go the Harvard lightweight men?...