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...make the 16-team NCAA Championships field in 2006 was a shock. The crew was forced to respond, and with a stronger heavyweight field breathing down its collective neck—not to mention the forces of history pressuring the squad all the more—this was a tall task.But respond it did. Bouncing back from 2006’s difficult dual season, the Black and White came out strong last spring, capturing early victories over then-No. 6 Princeton and Columbia and falling short against eventual national champion Brown by less than four seconds. After a successful...
Freezing behind all the empty rain-covered folding chairs this past Friday, I stood watching an inauguration for pretty much the same reason we all were: just to say we’d seen it. Thanks to the cold, the tall trees throughout Tercentenary Theatre shivered and shuddered themselves, letting go of pent-up rain and fall-colored leaves, dropping them… right in my face. Many felt when Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 spoke, he got all up in their face. To me, it was the only thing all day worth...
...they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana," said Charlie Cook, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "That's an incredibly tall order...
...talked (dragons speak a language that sounds like German, but instead of vowels, there’s fire) and he told me about his history, about how dragons are 200 feet tall, but can morph sizes anytime they want to kick it with the human-folk...
Perhaps the most whimsical performance of the evening came from Blumenthal, considered a pioneer of so-called molecular gastronomy. First came the conch shells, which servers placed on the table in front of each guest. Inside was an iPod Nano. Then came Blumenthal himself: tall, beefy, with a buzz-cut. "The idea is," he told the assembled foodies, "if you bite into something, and you put on music, the crispiness is accentuated." OK. So the diners - retirees, corporate execs, lawyers and thin blondes in five-inch stilettos - went along for the ride and slipped on the headphones. Next came...