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...ending Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships (IRAs), where Harvard snapped yet another streak—its three-year run of national-title victories. At first it appeared as if the Crimson might be able to salvage its streak of championship gold, as the race was relatively close at the outset. “[We’d] been concentrating on trying to start fast early on, and I feel we did pretty well,” sophomore stroke George Kitovitz said. “We stayed with the other teams for most of the race; there weren?...
...plan that we had been using wasn’t good enough,” Kauble said. “We decided that we wanted to try and go out there and win the championship, and we decided that we were going to try and be aggressive from the outset.”The Crimson’s approach paid off. Though Harvard was in fifth place after the first 300 meters, its attack allowed it to chase down its competitors and to come within inches of upsetting Cornell.And though the Crimson had its sights set on taking home...
...ruins of two great powers - the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires - which once ruled the Balkans. After World War I, the idea of bringing together all these closely related ethnic groups - Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and others - in one superstate seemed not only noble but perfectly reasonable. But from the outset, the new nation was riddled with tensions: although culturally close, the ethnic groups were divided by religion, and Serbs, as the largest and most dispersed group of all, tried to assume the dominant role, provoking resentment in others. Still, the first Yugoslavia held on until the Nazis and their allies...
...various skilled defense lawyers hired by Duke players to change the climate that Nifong worked to establish at the outset. Their efforts to sway the views of potential jurors affects the larger audience as well. They are not interested in disquisitions on the case as a parable about race or class or privilege. But they do have an interest in conducting a seminar on the rights of the accused in a democracy: we're all equal under the law, justice is blind, those accused are innocent until proven guilty, the constitution guarantees a right to a speedy trial...
Poking fun at corny oldmusicals is such a corny old device by now that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does...