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...After a disappointing 19th-place finish in the initial race, Palmer and Brants inched up in the standings, recording a weekend-best sixth in the final race of the regatta.Garrity skippered the B-division boat, joined by sophomore crew Meghan Wareham. Wareham was subbing for Garrity’s usual crew, injured senior Kerry Anne Bradford. The pair sailed to eighth overall, highlighted by a 4th-place finish in the regatta’s second race.Roger Williams won the regatta with 55 points. “We definitely have things to work on, but it’s a very...
...harness the public relations boost of brandishing a "warrior prince" in its ranks. William's uncle, Prince Andrew, was a Royal Navy helicopter pilot during the 1982 Falklands conflict. William was "awarded his wings" - that is, made a pilot - in a training course that was shortened from the usual four years to less than four months. But it seems to be a happy fit. While his brother Harry has crowed about the joys of being "stuck in" as "one of the lads" in the Army, William has thrived at higher altitudes. He said yesterday that his time...
...convergence of an Oscar winner (Voight), an Oscar nominee (Norton), an Oscar wanna-be (Farrell) and a Tony winner (Ehle) ought at least to provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary...
...were the best team there,” Harvey said. “We certainly don’t panic after the first day,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said of his team’s tendency to get off to slow starts. “They usually lift their games.” Perhaps the brightest note on the opening weekend was the play of freshman Christine Cho, who competed individually in the tournament. In her first collegiate competition, Cho (73-75-148) finished second overall. “It’s just a sign...
...Since you're shifting to a new medium, will you take reader feedback into account more than usual...