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...behind Tufts and host Yale. Each school sailed 12 races, with the Crimson finishing at 7-5, while the Bulldogs and Jumbos earned records of 10-2 and 9-3, respectively.Junior skipper Clay Johnson teamed up with senior crew Ruth Schlitz in the first boat, and co-captain Vincent Porter was joined by junior crew Christina Dahlman in the second. The sophomore team of skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Elyse Dolbec rounded out the participants.WOMEN’S PRESIDENT’S TROPHY @ BUThe No. 10 women’s team also took third place on nearby waters...
...Professor of Business and Government and Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter issued the evening’s keynote address, blending explicit advice about "being tough" with scattered anecdotes about his experiences working in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Porter, who teaches the popular course Government 1540: "The American Presidency" reflected during his talk, on the time when former President George H. W. Bush generously shared his swanky summer wardrobe after Porter had come to a meeting at his home noticeably overdressed...
...great leaders think not first and foremost about themselves, but they think about, care about, are concerned about, and take actions to help those that work with them," Porter said...
...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...
...staid world of poetry, where words can be weapons, two of its biggest guns appear to have engaged in battle. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has challenged Alice Quinn, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue...