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...general, a difficult weekend because it was pretty breezy, and we were sailing underweight,” Devlin said “We didn’t have as much weight in the boat, so we had problems keeping it flat...
Captain Daphne Lyman’s boat, skippered by freshman Elyse Dolbec, finished 18th in the A-division with 64 points. With sophomores Kristen Lynch at skipper and Cassandra Niemi at crew, Harvard finished 17th in the B-division, with 60 points...
Compounding the team’s difficulties was its small size. Lyman described her 235- to 240-lb. boat as especially light even for women’s racing...
THREE YEARS BEFORE John Fitch began contemplating the absurd--a boat powered by steam, not wind or men with oars--a warring band of Delaware Indians seized his raft, which was heading up the Ohio River with flour for settlers. The Indians scalped two of his companions; Fitch narrowly escaped a tomahawk blow to the head. This was his second brush with death at the hands of the Delaware tribe, whose swift canoes in 1782 often rendered the settlers' plodding rafts easy prey...
...DARKAZANLI, 46, a Syrian-born German suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden and serving as a fund-raiser for al-Qaeda networks in Europe; in Hamburg. German antiterror police arrested him on a European warrant at the request of Spanish authorities, who believe he helped purchase a boat for bin Laden. DIED CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of the Superman movies, who became even better known for his inspiration and activism after a 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. He became a powerful spokesman...