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...national rowing teams slated to compete in the Goodwill Games and the Olympics. He was enticed to try the crew program by former Brooks student and Harvard oarsman Donald Fawcett '89, who told the high school senior of the excitement of rowing for Harvard. Fawcett sent Sharis a postcard from the Henley Royal Regatta in England and the Boxford native was convinced to give the sport...

Author: By Frederik W. Geiersbach, | Title: From Novice Rower to Stalwart of the Nation's Best Crew | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping for a Frisbee, a cruise ship navigating the horizon. Unremarkable. For Junior and Susie, unattainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cocktail With Rum and Cyanide | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/17/1990 | See Source »

...perfect day for baseball. Now if only the baseball had been perfect. At McKechnie Field in Bradenton on the Gulf Coast, the midweek weather might have been auditioning for a Florida picture postcard, but the hometown Explorers committed three errors, looked orphaned on the base paths and lost by nine runs. After the game, Wayne Garrett, the former New York Met, who entered the lineup in the eighth inning, was asked if he was exhausted from playing. "No," Garrett sighed, "but I was tired of watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Never Having to Grow Up | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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