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...joke,” Benkreira says.But in his junior year, former U.S. Olympian Linda Miller took over the reigns as Wilson’s head coach, and as the crew program got serious, Benkreira got serious about crew.“It’s kind of odd how I came to row, but I’m glad I did it,” he says.When Benkreira arrived at Harvard, he once again found himself in a unique situation.The vast majority of college rowers are white, hailing from prestigious East Coast prep schools, Europe or Australia, and occasionally...
...Every day, I need to earn my spot on this team, and if I once were to feel comfortable with my status here, I’d have lost the drive that got me this far,” he says. “It’s an odd dynamic to have such defined competition between your own teammates. I feel people think that competition is a negative without realizing that we’re all working together, pushing one another to become better rowers...
...contemporary art.The most innovative work, by far, was by Wilson Parry, and is on display in Galerie Swantröm (129 Newbury). Perry’s work is bright, candied, and full of three-dimensional elements such as a field of pink foam cones jutting from the canvas. An odd combination of Richard Hamilton—the early Pop artist—and Chris Ofili, whose million dollar installation in the Tate London has been creating a stir, Perry is one of the most adventurous artists on display.Unfortunately for Beth Swanström, the owner of the gallery...
...Marie’s early inability to fully integrate into court life and reconcile her headstrong willfulness with a world so entirely governed by impenetrable rules of social decorum. Alienated and alone, plagued by rumors and insinuations (most damagingly, the perpetual gossip surrounding her husband’s odd indifference to actually consummating their royal alliance), she suffers the sort of humiliations and personal tragedies that can only exist in the contrived world of an assembled and isolated ruling elite. Marie’s universe is precisely the sort of place where well dressed courtiers drift languidly through Versailles?...
...owed that much, but it was the threat to take her to court that prompted her call to the debt collectors. She told them that she couldn't pay right then, and they were, shall we say, unsympathetic. So they sent more letters, and made phone calls at odd hours...