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...Radcliffe crews enjoyed success comparable to the men’s over the weekend, although an initial 30-second penalty in the Women’s Lightweight Four race nearly cost the Black and White a first-place finish in the Lightweight Fours. After a scratch in the lightweight eight race—this fall, only seven varsity lightweight rowers are primed for competition—the women’s four crossed the finish line first. But judges assessed the Radcliffe boat a crippling penalty for interference against the Georgetown crew, and the once-champion lightweight four fell...
...rest is already celebrated history: Wilson decides in 2004 to re-record the album from scratch with his backing band; Sept. 28 it is released and the predictable adulation streams from the press; Wilson announces more concerts across America and even hints at post-Smile work, including a possible collaboration with Paul McCartney...
...burning. The advent of the internet meant easy propagation of the material. Finally Wilson himself, rehabilitated, married and finally receiving proper medical treatment, broke his decades of silence about the album and this past year pieced the fragments of Smile into a workable order and rerecorded the album from scratch. The resulting product is brilliant, and its very existence borders on the miraculous—who would have guessed Brian would be the last surviving Wilson brother?—but nothing can touch the ambience of anxiety, mania, and rapidly imploding self-confidence that makes the original recordings...
During the spring, Berman played an integral role in planning the course, when she took a lighter course load at the College—only enrolling in two classes—to help the class’ two new professors write the course materials from scratch. She said that writing the exams was particularly challenging...
...Scratch-and-sniff stickers scratch and sniff...