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...Crimson heavyweights polished one of its most impressive seasons ever with a 2.43-second win over the second-place University of Washington boat at the national championship Cincinnati Regatta June 17. By that time, the Radcliffe novice heavyweights had already concluded their undefeated season by topping second-place Wisconsin by more than six seconds June 4 at the Women's Collegiate Nationals in Madison, Wisc...
...Crimson outlasted a six-boat field to win the Herschede Cup for the national title. Trailing Northeastern and Penn, Harvard stroked a power 20 after the 1000-meter mark, pulling out to a half-boat length lead. The Crimson extended its lead to the final margin of victory by the 1500-meter mark...
...lead in the first 200 meters on the Thames River in New London, Conn. Harvard consistently pulled away from the outmanned Elis, crossing the finish line 10 lengths ahead of its opponents in a time of 19:15.3, the third-fastest time in the history of the race. The win marked Parker's 23rd win over Yale in his 27 years as coach of the Crimson crew program...
When Christopher Whittle unveiled his plans to bring TV to the nation's classrooms earlier this year, he served up the deal with the classic pitch: everybody would win. Underfunded schools would get tens of thousands of dollars' worth of video equipment free, students would get a news program to teach them that Chernobyl is not Cher's full name, advertisers would get a captive teenage audience, and Whittle would make a healthy profit. Despite loud criticism that the daily newscasts amounted to cynical commercialization of the classroom, Whittle announced last week that he was not only going ahead with...
While the company, which is half owned by the Time Inc. Magazine Co., is confident the new plan will win approval from the 8,000 schools needed to make its $200 million investment pay off, Whittle still has not redressed his critics' biggest grievance. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "The whole thing is still being paid for by selling kids to advertisers. The Trojan horse now has a golden harness...