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...resulting in an overall eighth-place finish for the Crimson. “The winds were very inconsistent and fickle,” Johnson said. “You can really see that inconsistency in everyone’s scores.” In the ongoing Team Race and Metro Series, the Crimson relied on its youngsters to step up and contribute—but were unable to match No. 1 Boston College, victors in both events. In the third regatta of the Team Racing Series, Harvard finished one loss behind first place BC, compiling a 6-2 record against...
...worst. As a slightly less pessimistic British writer, Martin Amis, has observed: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else. Indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part of the reader's brain." Kingdom Come addresses the shopping lobe. Richard Pearson, a newly jobless advertising executive, visits the Brooklands Metro-Centre, an enclosed shopping mall of gigantic proportions - 20 supermarkets, 30 pharmacies, two hotels - along the M25 motorway near London's Heathrow airport. Two weeks earlier his father, a retired airline pilot, was killed there along with other shoppers when a deranged gunman opened fire. But Pearson soon finds...
...Yale’s teams took the first three spots, with Dartmouth and Tufts taking fourth and fifth, respectively. The Crimson took sixth and seventh places behind the performances of sophomores Megan Watson and Roberta Steele, respectively, in a competition featuring only two seniors. It was also the third Metro Series event of the year during the weekend, and Harvard just missed cracking the top five by a point in the Saturday event. The Crimson’s sixth-place finish was just a point behind Tufts in fifth place, while BC won the event. Sophomore skipper Andrew Flynn...
...Ashley had a streak of seven first-place finishes in a row,” Steele said. “You had to be really alert, playing the shifts, having good starts and good boat speeds, and they did all those things.” The first of the Metro Series races also took place this weekend at Boston University. Although Connecticut College coasted to a first place finish, the jockeying for positions second through six was very tight, with the Crimson coming in at third place by just five points. The A-division sophomore team of skipper Andrew Flynn...
...transport hot spots around the city, the skinny read blends top headline coverage with entertainment news and reviews, gossip and sport. Concerns about cannibalizing the Standard aside, it's easy to understand Associated's gambit. While the circulation of national morning newspapers has dipped 2.3% since February, distribution of Metro, Associated's morning London giveaway, has risen almost 10% to 549,000 copies a day. "We're keen to attract the urbanite audience on their way home," says Steve Auckland, head of Associated Newspapers' Free Newspaper Division. So, too, is Rupert Murdoch. His News Corp. already publishes the storied Times...