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...said. “I think winning against the Georgetown novices wasn’t a small thing.” “We had no idea what to expect,” Traverse said. “Our coxswain [freshman Ellen Lehman] had never competed in any sport, but she performed absolutely incredibly.” —Staff writer Elizabeth a Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...many departments fall after the break, concentrators often open out of returning home for a spell or wiling away hours out in Cancun. Honors track concentrators studying Religion, Visual and Environmental Studies, and most of the hard sciences spend their vacations holed up in their rooms. While spring-sport athletes who stay behind are often cared for by coaches and nutritionists, not everyone has that luxury. Perhaps most importantly, the lack of HUDS meals over break harms students who are socio-economically disadvantaged. For those who are financially prevented from a leisurely spring break, a meal plan is of utmost...
...Rather than let the lack of equality bother them, F1 fans embrace the technological warfare that defines their sport. For this year's championship, each of the leading teams has spent around $300 million on building and fine-tuning its cars. Behind the drivers is a network of boffins - engineers, mechanics, wind-tunnel experts - charged with analyzing the performance of every system of last year's model with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren...
...Arguably, though, the sheer engineering ingenuity of the F1 teams has diminished the sport's appeal. All 11 teams contesting the championship this year have produced machines of amazing quality. And all F1's pilots possess extraordinary gifts, not least the ability to make split-second decisions on steering, gear changes and strategy under the most trying conditions. But sport at the highest level is about separating the great from the really good, and some engineering advances have muddied the process. Part of all cars' armory from 2002-'07 was traction control, an electronic aid that kicks in when...
...boycotts were as much a part of the Olympics as spandex is today. The U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics. The Soviets boycotted the Olympics in Los Angeles. African nations boycotted the Montreal Games because New Zealand refused to boycott South African rugby. And rugby's not even an Olympic sport...