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...pair of freshmen, skipper Colin Santangelo and crew Rachel Park. After sailing to a victory in the regatta’s first race, the pair consistently placed in the top eight, but a 17th-place finish in the fifth race kept Harvard in the middle of the pack...
...have allowed me to start a decent little collection of oriental rugs. This may sound like a travel fantasy from the age of empire, but rugs are among the most practical pieces of furniture for the modern nomad looking to create a portable home. Originally designed to fit on pack animals, modest-sized rugs easily fold into airplane carry-on luggage; their irregular, hand-made patterns brighten up cookie-cutter hotel rooms; and as exotic gifts, they appease far-flung friends piqued by your absence from their wedding or the baptism of their child...
Wild weather followed the Harvard sailing team around New England last weekend, but the sailors prevailed, finishing near the top of the pack in three regattas.The Crimson’s top co-ed sailors spent the weekend in Newport, R.I., sailing at the New England Dinghy Championship. The squad’s seventh-place finish earned it a berth in the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Semifinals.Meanwhile, some of the younger members of Harvard’s co-ed team sailed closer to home in the Oberg Trophy, held on the Charles River. The Crimson placed sixth in the 15-team...
...July 2007 article in the New Yorker, writer Ian Parker reported a bonobo pack aggressively pursuing a baby duiker--a kind of small antelope. Coxe admits that her Kokolopori researchers reported troubling behavior in one bonobo group after a female gave birth to a stillborn baby. "The other adults let her keep the dead baby for a day," she says. "Then they ate it." These reports have given rise to a prickly cultural debate, with the unknowing bonobos being recruited into America's political wars. bonobos' genteel qualities may be overstated, said a headline in the Wall Street Journal after...
...mutual evaluation by the player and the team.Taylor, on the other hand, had not been drafted and knew that he would have to do some searching. It only took a few days of phone calls by Donato, however, to find the Minnesotan forward a spot with the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers’ AHL affiliate.Naturally, adjusting to a new team takes some time, especially at a higher level. But the move is even more staggering for college players who earn amateur tryouts, as they join teams that are already reaching the end of their seasons...