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...Charles is a tough river to steer on. The course is fairly specific and there are bouys on the Boston shoreline to indicate where a boat cannot...
...difficulty with coxing this particular race is in being able to overtake other boats in the shortest distance without creating clashes of oars or boat collisions," says Leigh Weiss '88, cox for Radcliffe heavyweights. "To be able to steer the straightest possible course given all the curves in the river can make a tremendous difference in a boat's time...
...this happening to you, ask questions about the job they have available and discuss your qualifications for it! Don't be passive. Don't answer questions in monosyllables. Be informative, direct, and succinct in your responses. Steer the interviewer into discussion of your interest in the company...
...pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets steer the MHV on a collision course with the target. No explosives are necessary: a satellite orbiting at 17,000 m.p.h. would be shattered by a head-on crash with a 35-lb. projectile hurtling 10,800 m.p.h. in the opposite direction...
That part is the bureaucratic, well-dressed, English-accented, sometimes amiable, and sometimes condescending Harvard administration. It's no minor affair. Scores of deans, governors, administrators and vice-presidents steer this very wealthy ship into calm but profitable waters. Their journeys take them toward new academic and technological frontiers and breakthroughs, toward new standards of "Harvard etiquette," and onto the drydock for repairs...