Word: river
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...called, simply, The Boat Race. But the grueling, annual 178-year-old meet, which pits two eight-man rowing teams from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford against each other along a four-mile stretch of London's River Thames, is the most famous, most watched rowing race in the world. In April, when Cambridge staged an amazing come-from-behind win, one of the victorious rowers was Dan O'Shaughnessy, a brash Canadian who initially didn't make the coaches' cut. O'Shaughnessy's a strong rower, but in this sport, synchronization is key, and his technique didn...
...architect of Harvard’s planned science complex, a 589,000-square-foot building that received approval from Boston last month. The complex—which will include winter gardens, skybridges, and an enclosed courtyard—will be the first project built across the Charles River. As the first architect to take a crack at the Allston campus, Behnisch faces the pressure of living up to the image of a university better known for brick and ivy than glass and limestone. According to the chief operating officer for the University’s Allston Development Group, Christopher...
...wittier than almost swearing, but not?) and have already begun ritually burning a bulldog in effigy. But I don’t blame you for being confused. You see, this year, the two games are scheduled for the same weekend. One will take place tomorrow night, across the Charles River, and the other on Saturday, across the Massachusetts-Connecticut border...
...apathetic crowd; we’ll go to Harvard-Yale, and we’ll be there for truly special events such as the night game against Brown, but other than that, it’s hard to get us to make the trek across the river. The way it turned out this year, one of the few days we’re actually willing to do so is the one day we can’t make...
...players in Boston’s underground hip-hop scene for eight years, was looking for a new DJ. They picked up Shiftee, but didn’t know just what they’d gotten until one of their first shows together at The Muddy River Smokehouse in Portsmouth, N.H. Zornow’s performance set other DJs’ tongues wagging...