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...lead and hoped also to control the pace of the race. Its efforts were rewarded with a narrow, two-seat advantage about 1000 meters in. However, early in the third 500 meters, as the Bears made several pushes to pull even and walk away, it became evident that the strength and energy Harvard expended to gain the lead at the 1000-meter mark came at a high price.Fatigue, combined with the difficult racing conditions, caused the Crimson to lose control of the boat’s set and rhythm, allowing Brown to walk up and take seats. After taking...
...have been on the team,” junior Devon MacLaughlin said. “I think it’s a really good sign for the team that we’re not just relying on a couple of people [for goals]. It shows that we have strength on our bench.”Led by senior co-captain Lauren Snyder, the Crimson barraged the Camel net from all angles as eight different players found themselves on the scoreboard. One of those players, freshman Shami Entenman, notched her first collegiate goal with 1:25 left in the final quarter...
...book of short stories?Frankly, not much.Wolff was already a sophisticated writer a decade ago; his marginal improvement can only be that—marginal. His characters, his versatility, and—oh, God—his language are as mesmerizing as ever. But Wolff’s greatest strength is the way in which he ponders the complexity of contemporary issues through the subtlest and simplest instances of the everyday. In “Our Story Begins,” he extends this deceptive banality to an impressive breadth of fresh topics.The collection features an array of gems...
...classic, almost theatrical album structure, and while previous albums simply opened and shut, here the band almost seems to be telling a story. The opening track, “All You Ever Wanted,” ambles like southern folk through a warm, strange, watery atmosphere, before building strength and catapulting skyward into symphonic ecstasy. The song’s coda grips urgently, with organs piling on climbing guitars, then slips away, ghostlike. Before there’s time to process the transition, the Keys start storming again, with the sinewy, unhinged rocker “I Got Mine...
...face of the surge, and there may be a temptation among insurgent strategists to lie low and regroup in their remaining havens around Iraq. But any insurgent pause now may mean lost chances to attack American troops and to score political points just as the disposition of U.S. military strength is up for debate...