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...triumph of New England racing, No. 2 Yale and No. 12 Harvard dominated No. 3 Virginia in high-stakes, cross-regional competition Saturday on the Housatonic River.“By beating Virginia in both the varsity eight, the [second varsity], and the four, we established we’re a faster team, but it’s also important to understand how the regions stack up against each other for NCAA selection,” said Harvard assistant coach Cory Bosworth. “You want to beat everyone in your region, and you want them to beat everyone...
...open the first round of the NCAA tournament. Reaching as high as No. 44 over the course of an up-and-down season, the team used a trying early-season schedule to prepare itself for the tougher play to come, taking on top-ranked teams such as No. 1 Virginia and No. 8 Michigan. Harvard will look to better its 15-6 record and continue its seven-game winning streak that includes two consecutive 7-0 victories to end the season. The Red Raiders won an at-large bid to make it into competition. The postseason is far from...
Wright's journey to black liberation theology lay through civil rights turmoil and debates about racial identity. He grew up in Philadelphia, the son and grandson of preachers. He enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically black college in Richmond, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, for the first time he saw Christians "who professed faith in Jesus Christ and who believed in segregation, and saw nothing wrong with lynching, saw nothing wrong with Negroes staying in their place," he told Bill Moyers in a PBS interview last week. That experience moved him to leave...
...just get up there and let somebody throw insults at you,” he said. “You never know what you’re going to get with a freestyle competition, but this was real respectful to hip-hop.” Event organizer Virginia E. Anderson ’08 said she aimed to display some of the wide variety of artists at Harvard. “We’re trying to show that Harvard students don’t just sit around and do problem sets,” she said...
...have signed up to compete, underground Boston rapper Akrobatik will be appearing, and audience participation is encouraged. Previous winner Darryl W. Finkton ’10 had not signed up prior to the competition but managed to get a lot of laughs going off the cuff, according to Virginia E. Anderson ’08, who organized the initial event last year. A fair amount of mocking can be expected since “the object is to humiliate your opponent,” according to Lev Shaket ’10, who competed last year and plans to perform...