Word: sailing
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...Harvard sailing team picked up where it left off last weekend, earning its fourth first-place finish of the young season and notching a key top three finish at a top-tier regatta in Kings Point, N.Y. The Crimson also kept a fleet of sailors nearby, as the team took seventh-place in a local race on the Charles River.Through just two weeks of competition of the fall campaign, Harvard already has four top finishes in only eight competitions.“It was a pretty good weekend for us all around,” co-ed captain Kyle Kovacs...
...Such concerns are mystifying for the dirt-streaked farmers who are loading their produce onto ships in Guanlei, the Yunnan port from which most Chinese goods set sail down the Mekong. "I've heard it's hard to grow crops in the countries downriver," says Wu Zhencha, who has arrived in Guanlei with boxes of broccoli destined for Thailand and who is unaware that the Mekong basin is, in fact, one of the most fertile regions on earth. Because of the trade with Indochina, Wu's village now boasts a paved road linking it to the highway. Modern pleasures like...
...Peering out from the 104th floor, I can see several other symbols of Dubai, a city-state roughly the size of Mallorca, with only about 250,000 citizens and 1 million or so foreign workers. The most famous is the Burj al Arab, a splendid, sail-shaped luxury hotel as high as the Eiffel Tower. When Sang points toward the hazy waters of the Gulf and says, "That's the World out there," it takes me a second to realize he's not referring to our planet, but to yet another huge real estate development. The World will...
...department’s co-director of undergraduate studies, Ann Pearson. The department also sponsors field trips for concentrators before the beginning of the fall term. Last year, concentrators camped out in the Canadian Rockies and studied the region’s geology. This year, students will set sail on a five-day cruise along the coast of California...
...Even those golden children who sail through Harvard as they’ve sailed through high school fail, in a sense. They’ve failed to experience failure, and their education is impoverished as a result. I’ve learned, sometimes painfully, to accept that it’s not possible to achieve everything and that only when we risk failure, are great gains possible...