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This was the part where my voice recorder ran out of battery, and it was also near the end of my questions. So I started to wrap it up and closed my notebook...
...banks of the Charles will be lined with coaches, cheering crowds, vendors, and more. Near Harvard’s Weld Boathouse will be the “Weld Exhibition,” featuring food and freebies from the race’s official sponsors, while a new food court will be set up by the Weeks Footbridge and another at the Rowing and Fitness Expo, on Soldiers Field Road...
Lightweight Women’s Head Coach Heather B. Cartwright points out that the bridges can be especially exciting, even for unschooled spectators. “Around there everyone is so close to one another that there are some near collisions and spectacular near misses,” she explains...
...proved problematic for U.S. Presidents over time, however - and Brzezinski's well-known desire to apply such pressure has made him unpopular among Israel's noisy neoconservative and Evangelical supporters. But there are others, including well-known supporters of Israel like David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who think a breakthrough is possible. Makovsky's idea is to start with what seems the toughest problem: the Israeli settlements. "It is actually possible to work out a land swap that would satisfy both sides," he says. "I've done the maps: a 4% land swap would...
...Pozas (the Pools) are an excellent first stop and typify the region's color and extravagance. These extraordinary gardens near the mountain village of Xilitla were devised by the English surrealist poet Edward James, who worked on them from 1949 right up until his death in 1984. Giant sculptures, pagodas, moss-covered follies and staircases to nowhere sprawl over 80 acres (32 hectares). Nearby is James' former home - a truly incongruous mansion of turrets and Gothic windows rising out of the jungle. Today, it is a fabulously quirky eight-room hotel, La Posada El Castillo...