Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder if any role models exist anywhere among today's 30-odd teams...
Actually, in the past decade, the HVL. program has followed a striking even-odd year pattern of results, winning in the odd years and falling short in the even years. As far back as 1993, the varsity boat won the national championship. Yet, in 1994, with six returning seniors who were all national champions from the year before, the crew was unable to pull everything together, coming up short in both end-of-the-season races...
...course in 1997, after the drama of the previous year, the varsity boat won both EARC and IRA victories, and then, still following this odd even curse, the 1998 crew fell to their old nemesis, Princeton, at nationals. Last year was Maclaurin's and Weiss' first year on the varsity boat, so unlike Fallows and Lenhart, they have not won a national championship...
...were to simply abide by the patterns of history, given that this is 1999, an odd year in the vicious cycle of victory and defeat, then the Crimson may be predetermined to win the national championship. But these athletes quickly disregard any superstitious prophesies, and are aware that a national championship is hardly a given...
...wrath. They are, after all, the most convenient politicians in sight--easily accessible and personally known--they, more than any other elected officials are supposed to fight for their constituencies. A senator or representative is more affiliated with their party, whereas many local politicians like Duehay are an odd amalgam of political beliefs and positions. Those amalgams come about when you have to face problems in your hometown that defy the party line, problems which the party line has done nothing to solve...