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...someone who almost never picked up an oar in the first place, Mansour Benkreira has made quite a name for himself in the Newell Boathouse.Benkreira, a senior oarsman for the varsity lightweights, is now an indispensable component of the Harvard varsity. But had things gone differently in his freshman year at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., rowing might never have even crossed his mind.“I started rowing in ninth grade because I tried out for JV football as a 135-pounder,” Benkreira says.In a sport largely confined to elite private institutions, Wilson...
...Boston Ritz-Carlton dinner table with his friends of 50 years, George B. “Barry” Bingham Jr. ’56 proposed the impossible: a Charles River row in a lightweight eight-oar shell to take place this week.Two years earlier he had suffered a heart attack and received a pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April...
...back and forth of bow balls as two neck-and-neck crews approach the catch at different times. There’s the furious start from dead in the water, when boats go from zero to 50 strokes per minute in five flicks of an oar. And there’s often a concerted push at the midway point, as crews prepare to enter the brutal third 500 meters on a high note—and with some distance between opposing boats. Tenths of seconds change races; baseball innings, on the other hand, can last half an hour.Even though...
...into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry, 60, tried to push away the 4-m-long crocodile with an oar, but it seized his arm, capsizing the canoe. Glenda was able to swim to the bank, but her husband vanished without trace...
...started planning and searching for an artist in April and narrowed down its choice from a pool of 21 artists, which included Nas, Beck, OAR, The Killers, Ludacris, and John Mayer...