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...Hurst Bowl wasn’t the only regatta of the week, however, as the No. 3-ranked co-ed squad also sailed in the Nevins Trophy at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, N.Y. The action ended with the Crimson finishing in eighth place, 22 points behind the College of Charleston. Boston College won the event by a ten-point margin, while Georgetown and Roger Williams University tied for second. The A-division veteran senior duo of Clay Johnson and Kristen Lynch captured sixth for Harvard, while the best showing...
...when I was in eighth grade," says Marine Sgt. Rob Sarra, "and I knew what I wanted to do, I knew what I wanted to be. And then I saw a Marine when I was in high school. And I was like, that?s it! They?re mean, they?re tough, they got cool uniforms and chicks dig ?em." Sarra then recalls his interview with a recruiting officer. "?Here?s the big book of all the opportunities you have in the Marine Corps. What do you want to do?? Pushes it across the desk at me. I looked...
...love to regale visitors with made-up stories-perhaps the tallest of all will be the one you hear in Murchison Station House, a 200,000-hectare sheep farm in the Western Australian outback. There you will be told that everything you see once belonged to Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, and that it was all seized when he failed to pay his debts. You may be inclined to laugh when you hear this. How could Jah, the grandest of Indian kings, inheritor of possibly the world's greatest private fortune, end up on a sheep farm...
...when a 33-year-old, British-educated Mukarram Jah became the eighth Nizam after his grandfather's death, he was no longer a real king, but he was still dizzyingly rich-the master of numerous palaces, a fleet of Rolls-Royces and five trust funds. Muslims in Hyderabad revered Jah, whose maternal grandfather was the last Caliph of Islam in Turkey; the Indian government hoped he would become a diplomat. But the impetuous young man, still sulking over the end of his kingdom, was more interested in tinkering with cars. Then, in 1972, he discovered Australia. After his first glance...
...workers-very dirty. The rewards were not financial. He invested millions in heavy machinery of dubious utility, including an amphibious tank; but his sheep farm never turned a profit. He invested millions more buying a gold mine; but it produced little gold. With all the financial savvy of an eighth-generation royal, Jah once chartered a plane just to bring a can of hydraulic fluid to his farm. Although his business ventures flopped, Jah was enjoying himself immensely. He bought a mansion in Perth, and converted a minesweeper into a giant luxury yacht. When his Turkish wife left him, unwilling...