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...can’t say we ran out of water. We had all the water that was necessary, we just couldn’t pull it through.”The second varsity, however, took advantage of every meter of water available to eek out a gold medal win??the boat’s fourth in five seasons. No. 1 Harvard, undefeated and untested in the dual season, fell back by as much as a length to Yale in the opening 1000 meters in Sunday’s final. A strong first 500 from Wisconsin put the Crimson...
...really happy that we had lane one,” captain stroke Dan Reid said. “You start down, but I had a lot of faith in our ability to move aggressively in the first 1,000. And once you hit the turn, you almost win??it’s like a free length.”As it turned out, the Crimson second varsity needed no favors on Saturday. Harvard built a four-seat on both Yale and Princeton by midway through the second 500 meters, and the lead stretched to a length...
...redeem itself next Saturday at home against Dartmouth in its final regular-season and Ivy League game. “I think the goal all year has been to play each game one at a time,” Anderson said. “This [could be] a big win??this is a team we haven’t beaten in a few years.The kind of effort and the kind of success we had against Yale, that’s what we want to have. We want something to demonstrate the improvement we had in the season...
...hope to bilk a few extra dollars from unsuspecting moviegoers by evading the press; by the time critics are able to turn their acid pens on Hollywood’s latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win??maybe. Savvy cineastes already know that films withheld from critics are usually terrible, and avoid them accordingly. Fans disappointed by this season’s batch of un-reviewed movies—including stinkers like the Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote his “Slow Down” letter as an attack on the same kind of thing. The popular press caught on almost as quickly, overworking the “College Admissions Game Getting Harder to Win?? angle until phrases like “extracurricular activities” and “unweighted grade point average” became household terms...