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...placed 13th overall in their 18 races on the weekend. The B-division pair—consisting of junior Colin Santangelo at skipper and freshman Sarah McCuskee at crew—did not have as strong a day, as it finished last in its division of racing, despite a runner-up finish in the 12th race of the two-day competition.Freshman Ryan Byrne competed in the C-division for the Crimson, matching his B-division counterparts efforts with an 18th place finish.CENTRAL SERIES TWOA co-ed contingent of Crimson sailors also competed at the Central Series Two regatta hosted...
...seat behind the desk of a nightly newscast is the equivalent of a network throne, morning news is more like the couch. But there's money in that couch - more, in fact, than at 6:30 p.m. Despite being a perennial runner-up to NBC's Today show, GMA, under Sawyer, was a huge asset to ABC's bottom line. But the show has struggled recently, allowing CBS's The Early Show to approach it in the ratings. Without Sawyer that struggle gets even harder, and the show may have to reimagine itself as less anchor-driven. "I think what...
France Goes Its Own Way The Front National is the big beast of Europe's far right. It was France's third-largest political party for much of this decade, and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the party might have expected to harness the perfect storm of rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven...
...Runner-up for the second weekend in a row, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince stanched its 62% dive last weekend with a more modest 40% tail-off, mostly owing to the adding of 161 IMAX screens, where the price of admission is much steeper. Of the two sophomore entries, G-Force, Jerry Bruckheimer's locked-and-loaded version of Alvin and the Chipmunks, came in third with $17.1 million, and The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl's R-rated tryst with Gerard Butler, plunged 53% to amass $13 million. Since the movie cost only $38 million to make...
...tidy little package of what we like about sports. But there was one moment at the end, after the trophy presentation, when Federer and Nadal were circling the court in opposite directions with their trophies. And the place was dark but for everyone's camera flashes. Federer had his runner-up trophy - which was jarring in itself - and they had been fighting and battling, and they pass each other and sort of spontaneously they slap each other a high-five. It was a simple but unrehearsed gesture that for some reason I found so touching...