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With the team entering a series of major intersectional regattas both for co-eds and women, Devlin and the three men’s sailors who will sail at New England qualifiers—senior Vincent Porter, junior Clay Johnson, and sophomore Kyle Kovacs—will be splitting time between fleet and singlehanded racing...
Seniors skipper Vincent Porter and crew Ruth Schlitz proved a model of consistency, with seven of ten finishes in the top five for second in the B-division...
...remarkable individual in many dimensions,” Porter wrote in an e-mail. “In meetings his contributions are invariably on point. He has that wonderful quality when he disagrees with someone of not being disagreeable. His first instinct is to clarify and understand the relevant facts in addressing an issue and then to think through the consequences from a variety of vantage points. Everyone whom I knew liked him, in part because they liked his clarity and judgment, in part because of his wit and humor, in part because he is one of those people...
...Porter said he believes that given these qualities, the man he saw as a young government lawyer will make a top-notch chief justice...
...Cases that reach the Supreme Court often involve some of our most challenging public policy issues,” Porter said in an e-mail. “John Roberts’ background, experience, mind, and temperament make him a superb choice to sit on and to preside over our nation’s highest court...