Word: river
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...Fifteen minutes after leaving my room in Claverly, I was at the Charles River Basin, where home regattas are held. Two stops on the red line, a five-minute walk, and there I was. That’s about the same amount of time it takes me to walk across the river to cover women’s hockey, so my first excuse for not attending is shot...
...just standing by the river watching, imagine how cold it must be to be in a boat, exposed, in the middle of the river. With the wind whipping across your boat. For hours a day. All weekend long. Props...
...When I got to the river, the women’s A division had just finished a race, so all the boats were on the dock and the B-division sailors were hopping in. Once the boats left the dock, the first thing I saw was one boat tip nearly all the way over. The two women in it scrambled to the other side of the boat and pulled it back upright. Close call, I thought. Actually, that’s the way sailing goes. Now I understand why the team lifts twice a week...
There’s just no place like home.The Harvard sailing team returned to the Charles River last weekend with one goal—to qualify for this month’s ACC Championships. Both the women’s and co-ed teams did much more than that, winning the Victorian Coffee Urn and Erwin Schell Trophy respectively, to end the regular fall season on a high note. “This weekend was really exciting for both the co-eds and the women. I was really, really excited for the co-eds and it was great that both...
Most Americans do not trust media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, citing media bias and misguided focus as their primary concerns, according to a poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School last week. The poll—which was co-sponsored by the Merriman River Group—found that 89 percent of U.S. citizens agree or strongly agree that the news media focuses too much on trivial issues, 77 percent agree or strongly agree that the news media is politically biased, and 82 percent agree or strongly agree that media coverage has too much influence on whom Americans...