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...sport’s lack of popularity on the eastern side of the country made him reconsider his options.“My senior year in high school, I planned on playing volleyball here,” Crooks says. “But I realized that in the Northeast, volleyball is a much smaller program, and I decided that I had the build and the body type that was good for crew.”So Crooks took his place on the river, chasing the historic legacy of Newell Boathouse instead of the relatively unknown tradition of Harvard men?...
...hill in a pin-striped business suit. Other skiers are dressed in more sporty Gore-Tex outfits, but many share the snow-dusted rear of the man dressed for a day at the office. After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills?or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney on the mountain-lodge menu are not usual ski-resort fare. "Now that Chinese have more...
...most of China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting...
...boots may be an easy sell compared with convincing Chinese to vacation at high-end domestic ski resorts. China's northeast may have plenty of snow, but with average temperatures in the -20?C range, this is hardly balmy country. Chinese tourists with enough cash to dedicate to a luxury sport may prefer to go abroad. "South Korea is only two hours away and has great ski resorts," says Wang Hongbin, publisher of China's first ski magazine, Speed Ski. "People like to boast that they have vacationed overseas, not in some poor village in China's northeast...
...Chris N. Hanley ’07 and musical director Alexander D. Gordon ’06, and co-produced by Hanley and David S. Jewett ’08, the musical is the first rendition of “Chicago” that has shown in the northeast in ten years. The production will run on the Agassiz stage until March...