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...amazed whenever I see runners on the river or in the Olympics, and the graceful strength of their bodies, the rhythm of their legs and the stillness of all else...
Radcliffe heavyweight crew rose to the Charles River Challenge on Saturday with seven total wins. Three boats finished the day of races undefeated and the varsity eight and novice eight claimed their first wins of the season.The second varsity boat, with a flair for the dramatic, notched another come-from-behind win in the morning and pulled out a slim win in the afternoon.“The racing this weekend was very successful, we were very excited for our victories across the board,” co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker said.The Challenge featured two sets of races, morning...
Blink, and you would have missed it. Early Saturday morning on the Charles River, the Harvard men’s lightweight crew team finished .05 seconds—less time than the blink of an eye—behind Dartmouth to lose the Biglin Bowl for the second time in three years. Despite the varsity eight’s close loss, the team performed strongly as a whole, winning three of the day’s five races. Additionally, the varsity eight, novice eight, and second novice eight all handily defeated MIT, as the Engineers finished at a distant third...
Though Leopold declined to give numbers specific to the College, several of those undergraduates submitted their application forms from the Cambridge side of the Charles River...
Lugo sees the electricity deals as one solution. Rising demand has created an energy crisis in South America, especially in growing economies like Brazil; and Paraguay's hydro-electric dams on the Parana River provide one of the nation's most valuable commodities (and almost two-thirds of its GDP). The market value of the electricity Paraguay sells to Brazil and Argentina each year is estimated to be more than $3 billion; but Paraguay receives less than $1 billion for it. Lugo wants to renegotiate that arrangement, and many if not most Paraguayans back him. "We've been robbed...