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...this who can’t call their families at all, because their families live in a developing country where they don’t have a telephone—they use a shared one in their town, because telephone wiring is too expensive to run it the last mile and get it into individual homes...
Despite the grim conditions, nearly 1,500 boats and 7,000 rowers zipped down the 2.3-mile stretch of the Charles through Boston and Cambridge to the cheers of fans...
...event celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, and Harvard and Radcliffe crews were again in the mix against the world’s premier rowing competition. Heavy winds at the river’s basin forced officials to shorten the three-mile course to just over two miles long, but a change in scenery did nothing to deter the Harvard’s top Championship Four entry yesterday...
...Harvard. Despite losing six first varsity rowers from last year’s national championship boat and six more from the junior varsity, the Crimson dominated the competition in the Championship Four race. Harvard led early in the race, but its pace was overtaken in the final half mile by that of USRowing—manned by rowers from this year’s Olympics—which defeated the Crimson by 0.2 seconds. Nobody else—not even the non-collegiate competition—came close...
Harvard began the race aggressively, taking advantage of an early opening to pass a moving Princeton crew. Although Harvard was forced to pass Wisconsin on the outside, the crew made up for the loss of time with a burst of speed just beyond the race’s one-mile mark...