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...search for positives, a look at the make-up of the 17-man Swiss crew is a must. It contained five Kiwis, including skipper Brad Butterworth, whom Bertarelli described amid the celebrations as "the best sailor in the world." When another of their own, Russell Coutts, led Alinghi to victory in Auckland four years ago, New Zealanders weren't impressed. But they may be starting to accept the realities of international sailing, where huge money tends to override national loyalties. "We've got 100 or so sailors on the scene and they're all in demand for America...
...talent at the top. Senior and former men’s captain Clay Johnson and junior Kyle Kovacs issued a dominating performance at the Men’s Singlehanded Championships, finishing in first and second places. Freshman Drew Robb also took seventh place in the 29-sailor field just over a month into his collegiate sailing career. “I was really pleased with how I sailed,” Johnson said after the victory, in which his combined point total with Kovacs was 13 more than that of the third-place finisher. The showing sent both skippers...
...time, her reaction speaks for itself: she banished all thought of the settlers, staying clear of Jamestown for the next four years. The English, though, weren't finished with her. In the spring of 1613, when Pocahontas was nearing 18, she was kidnapped by a colonist-sailor. Her father paid most of the ransom--a gaggle of English prisoners, guns and a boatload of corn--but the white men kept the girl just upriver from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime. In what must...
Favorite childhood activity: Reenacting scenes from “Sailor Moon...
...classic Harvard style) overeager students will take advantage of joint concentrations and secondary fields to mix and match, making the possibilities endless...or exactly 1,640, for all you math concentrators. Here are a few: East Asian Studies + Music = The Song Dynasty Earth and Planetary Sciences + East Asian Studies = Sailor Moon African and African American Studies + Linguistics = a concentration that clicks Environmental Science and Public Policy + Engineering Sciences = Greenough Hall Anthropology + Government = a natural selection Applied Mathematics + Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations = intense division Evolutionary Biology + Neurobiology = Pinky and the Brain Folklore and Mythology + Classics = “Troy?...