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...Harvard heavyweight varsity eight missed the Grand Final for the first time in 44 years, while their lightweight counterparts also came up empty in the morning heats, falling short of the Grand Final for the first time in over six decades...
...International intrigues, encounters with royalty, topless models, sex in a castle: subjects covered in the few extracts already published in the British press read more like the ingredients of a lightweight thriller than a serious political memoir. Yet Cherie Blair's book has already had a heavy impact on Gordon Brown, her husband's successor as Prime Minister. Struggling to reassert his authority after his Labour Party was savaged in municipal elections this month, and eager to avoid another rout in a byelection on May 22, Brown urgently needs to convince the public and his own party that...
It’s been a tough season so far for the Harvard lightweight crew team. After a third-place finish behind Navy and Georgetown last weekend, the Crimson again found itself finishing last on Saturday morning, this time on the Charles River behind rivals Yale and Princeton...
With only two boats in the varsity eight race, the headline race of the day, the Radcliffe lightweight crew first varsity was edged out by Central Florida by one second. The Black and White regrouped to take the last two races of the day, the varsity four and the novice four. “I don’t think any of us were satisfied with how we raced this weekend,” junior Rebekah Kharrazi said. “This was certainly not the result we were anticipating or would have preferred.” Going into...
...Since it began in 2001, more than 150 students have participated. Necessity has sometimes forced them to come up with innovative solutions: For example, the team decided that instead of using a bell housing (which contains the car's clutch) made of expensive magnesium, students designed and built a lightweight substitute made of cheap, sturdy iron. Hayashi won't disclose the car's total development costs, but he says it will cost some $785,000 just to compete at Le Mans. Funds have come from Tokai University, sponsors, and from Hayashi's own pocket. Additional cash is trickling in from...