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Marcello Burricks is not your typical America's cup yachtsman. Raised in a rough, mixed-race township on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope peninsula, he had to prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable...
...After a rough couple of weekends, the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team (6-4, 3-2 Ivy) put itself back on track in the Ivy League with a 12-4 win Saturday afternoon against Yale (5-8, 1-5 Ivy) at Johnson Field in New Haven, CT. The win was a much-needed turnaround from the previous two weeks in which the squad lost on home turf two of its three League matchups. “After the Princeton loss we all thought we played a good game but we didn’t play...
...kids” were “cool with.” I replied that yes, it was.And indeed, it is—mostly.Décor first, since it may be Om’s biggest draw: the first floor is beautiful. The bar, backed by a rough-hewn stone wall, is illuminated with amber light. Plasma screens line the walls, streaming iTunes-esque visualizations in matching yellows and reds. One wall in the table area is covered with an ornate Tibetan painting of an intimidating-looking deity stomping on some fools and scaring away the bad mojo...
...complex South African language politics through a piece about fig trees, Stopforth’s remarkable skill as storyteller, political actor, and artist shines throughout. His work and his words perform a kind of near-alchemic synesthesia, drawing together the colors of light, the sounds of protest, and the rough texture of nations. And in the end, the quality of his art is met only by the clarity of his words: he states simply, “Drawing is one way of articulating my relationship to the world.” —Zoe M. Savitsky
...Unlike Card, McClellan gets little internal blame for the rough seas of the second term. McClellan kept his cherubic grin and low-key sense of Southern humor even when he was being rhetorically pummeled by testosterone-fueled correspondents. When McClellan?s Texas Longhorns were appearing with Bush to celebrate their Rose Bowl win at the height of the imbroglio over Vice President Cheney?s marksmanship, McClellan joked, "The orange that they're wearing is not because they're concerned that the Vice President may be there. Although that's why I'm wearing...