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...crew’s varsity eight fell just off the medal stand, losing to a suprise Bucknell boat, which won the gold. The team was just four seconds short of third, ending the crew’s six-year run of medaling.Last spring, the program fell to a sixth- place finish, as Wisconsin regained its national championship crown.In order to respond, the crew will look to its new varsity coach, Heather Cartwright, to pull the Black and White out of limbo.And from all accounts, the crew is ready to do just that.“[Cartwright] has a very structured...
...course, despite a final-500 push by the Dutch. The US boat finished in a time of 6:05.34 to the Netherlands’ 6:07.22.2004 grads and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss reached the final of the men’s pair for the US, placing sixth overall, after a tense semi-final in which they moved up from fifth to second position in the last 500, fully earning their spot in the last race with a time of 6:36.65.“In the semi-finals we started well. We still hadn’t dropped that...
...globe - the foreign visitors that typically make up a third of Bonduel's clientele have been thinning out and spending less. To make matters worse, many French visitors to his restaurant, Au Bon Saint-Pourçain - a stone's throw from the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris' tony sixth arrondissement? - are also eating and drinking less than usual. "I've checked the accounts, and I know I'll make no profit this month," says Bonduel...
...lost is playing out across the American economy. So far, Bair has worried about Main Street while working overtime to limit the damage on Wall Street. In the past month, she's overseen the "resolution" (meaning, in a banker's lexicon, the "failure and sale") of the country's sixth largest bank, Washington Mutual, and helped negotiate the forced sale of superregional Wachovia bank to Citi (only to see the deal, in an embarrassing turn, break down when Wells Fargo snatched up Wachovia instead). She got Congress to boost the ceiling on deposit insurance temporarily from...
...Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” is one of five books nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published early last year—just months after Faust assumed the Harvard presidency—the book garnered largely positive reviews and impressive sales for a historical work. In its first five...