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...colder months, Nagano prefecture--site of the 1998 Winter Olympics--offers the delightful contrast of piping-hot springs amid snow. Two hours west of Tokyo lie the vast Lake Suwa and the onsen town of Kamisuwa. At Saginoyu saginoyu.com) a historic inn, some of the grandest rooms offer private rotenburo, round cedar tubs overlooking the lake. But don't miss the communal onsen on the ground floor, where the rotenburo are shielded by tile roofs from which icicles hang in winter. In spring, cherry blossoms provide a pink feast for fatigued bathers' eyes...
...Harvard crew achieved the near impossible by winning three championship titles last week at the Henley Royal Regatta— the grandest stage in the world at the club and university level...
Necessity thus thrust Nyweide into the Crimson’s starring role on the season’s grandest stage. He promptly brought the house down...
...grandest shot of all came with Harvard ahead 5-0 in the sixth. Mann, who had doubled in his first at-bat, hit an absolute bomb to straightway left field. The moonshot hovered around the top of a lightstand when it cleared the fence and elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs from the Harvard dugout...
Instead, Birtwell has his sights set on the grandest stage of all. Major League Baseball is an exclusive fraternity with a long waiting list, but Birtwell says his time in the minors has shown him that while he has a lot to learn, the supposed pipe dream of playing major league baseball is actually a realistic possibility...