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...forget Harvard. The women "shaved" and "tapered" for the meet, going all out to win in their home pool. If one "shaves" one removes all the hair from the body in order to decrease drag. To "taper is to cut down on the length and intensity of practices before a meet so that one is rested for the meet...
...just haven't got enough swimming base in them yet. It wouldn't be useful to have them shave and taper when they are not ready," Harvard Coach Joe Bernal said...
...side of the pool stood the Harvard team, not yet in peak condition-on purpose. Harvard opted for the conditioning strategy: shave and taper distances later in the season, when Princeton and the Easterns roll around--when the schedule means something...
About a mile away, in a plaza of cultural palaces around a gushing fountain, patrons stroll into the white marble monument that houses Los Angeles' older, more conventional-seeming Mark Taper Forum. Visually, the contrast between the Taper and the L.A.T.C. is stark. But the ferment, the embrace of the new and the political consciousness are much the same at both. Throughout its 21-year history under artistic director Gordon Davidson, the Taper has thrived on controversy. FBI agents, for example, sat alert at the opening of Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping...
...efforts could succeed in attracting visitors in time for the fall and winter holidays. The Tourism Ministry is working with New York City's Grey Entertainment & Media company to launch a new campaign next month. The theme: "See Israel. See for yourself." If the demonstrations continue to taper off and Israel is replaced in the news by other world events, there still seems to be a chance that more tourists will do just that...