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...crew final for apparent complicity in the “Black Power” protest U.S. track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos made on the podium. Had Hoffman been booted the night before the final, his crew would have likely elected to forfeit rather than row without him. The IOC eventually cleared him due to lack of evidence, but Hoffman and the Harvard boat finished last in the Grand Final the next day. Hoffman’s tril the Crimson boat had made its social stance known as early in July—two months before the Games began...
Raised in competitive Ivy League rowing towns, captain Pat Mulcahy and fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they...
...crew.A former Canadian hockey star and standout all-around athlete, senior Anton Wintner competed in rugby, track, football, basketball, lacrosse, and hockey before he even got to college. But when Wintner arrived at Harvard, it was time to pick up an oar.“Rowing was one sport I had never done,” Wintner said. “I came to Harvard, and the only sports you could just pick up and walk on to were basically track and rowing. I decided that I had a little bit better of a physique for rowing than for running...
...simply slapped the green Benetton logo on a photojournalist's award-winning image of a dying AIDS patient surrounded by his family. Since then, the son of a renowned Milan photojournalist has snapped his own striking frames of Balkan war victims, children from a Sicilian Mafia town and death-row inmates, the last of which set off widespread anger in the United States and eventually lead to his split with Benetton...
After 11 years in the back seat, Australia's Labor Party is itching to take the wheel of government again. Four times in a row voters have rejected Labor in favor of John Howard's conservative coalition. But with a shiny-blond new leader, Kevin Rudd, trouncing Howard in popularity polls, Labor has a real chance to deprive the P.M. of a fifth term. A few days after Howard called an election for Nov. 24, betting markets were offering $2.60 for a government win; $1.50 for Labor...