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...well known niche for himself in U.S. rowing circles with his coaching exploits at Harvard, threw out the old method of selecting infact the best U.S. eight for the Olympics. Instead Parker brought in the individual selection process, the system that had made East Germany and New Zealand centers of power in the rowing world. Parker and the U.S. Olympic Committee, discouraged by the steady downhill slide of U.S. rowing in international competition since 1968, wanted to give...
...less than two weeks after Parker had decided his seating alignment for the Olympics, the Americans stunned the international rowing world by winning the regatta in a course record 5:48.58. The Americans soundly defeated the West German runners up by four seconds, while swamping world power New Zealand by two full lengths. The Americans had arrived and, in a little under six minutes actual racing competition, were being hailed as "the fastest boat to come out of the U.S. in ten years," and odds-on favorites to strike Olympic gold at Munich...
With nine novels to her credit, New Zealand's Janet Frame still offers something of a fielder's choice: whether to praise the strength of her poetic imagination or question the precarious structures of her novels, which are part prose, part poetry, part fiction and part personal reverie. Like dreams, her narratives advance and recede according to the most private tides of consciousness. Like dreams, they have a coherence that is easily bruised by interpretation...
This loss is reflected in fadebacks to life and death in a New Zealand family. Such returns to a private past suggest autobiography, and their effect on the book is like those Japanese puppet shows in which the puppeteer is camouflaged in black but just visible and working openly against a black back drop-a subtle reminder to viewers that the puppets are not their own masters...
...young Singaporeans come to Australian campuses each year, and it is no secret that some of them have been Maoists or assorted other troublemakers. Unhappy Australian conservatives are not impressed by the fact that Singaporean firebrands have also been sent, with no disastrous effects, to Canada and New Zealand (although not to Britain, Lee explained, "because there you go to the London School of Economics and come back an even more convinced revolutionary"). Australian Senator John T. Kane, a leader of the right-wing Democratic Labor Party, suggested that McMahon should demand reciprocal rights from...