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...Crimson’s mastery of the Charles was upstaged only by the crews from the Princeton Training Center (14:03.401), Victoria City Rowing Club (14:12.115) and USRowing (14:16.143), the last of which finished less than eight-tenths of a second in front of the Crimson...
...Princeton Training Center crew led throughout, eking out the fastest time at the first checkpoint at Riverside before distancing itself significantly from the competition. Leading Victoria City by less than a second early on, Princeton Training Center stretched the difference to six seconds by the next timed mark...
...interest suggests that the CEO and the liberal activist are fundamentally the same: The activist finds his own fulfillment in activism and the manipulation of power structures that accompanies it. (Remember that, in social movements, there is always a demagogue who stands to gain. “Hasta la victoria siempre!”) As the quest for wealth is no more self-interested or self-gratifying than is the quest for power, Harvard’s budding businessmen, investment bankers, and CEOs do not deserve to be singled out for browbeating and moral outrage...
...need to leave the neighborhood: Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson--of The Park restaurant--have opened the porthole-punctuated Maritime Hotel on Ninth Avenue at 16th Street. With its 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor public garden and '60s-style Pop Art decor, this place is already a magnet for Victoria's Secret models and Marc Jacobs acolytes. Up next: the 187-room Hotel Gansevoort, across the street from Soho House, with a rooftop pool, loftlike rooms and two restaurants. The meat-packing district used to be strictly for cows and transvestites. There goes the neighborhood. --By Rebecca Isenberg
What I didn't understand until meeting Evidente is how important shoes are. To me, shoes were just something that I casually noticed nicely set off the ensemble of a Victoria's Secret model. But shoes, Evidente explains, can be hot in and of themselves. And the right shoe can make a woman look better. "You can almost spot a foot and not only know her size but what would look good: something to camouflage the bunion or something that accentuates a long, sexy leg," Evidente says. One of his many skills is being able to talk about feet...