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...start particularly well,” Porter said. “We were definitely a little disappointed about how we sailed.”The poor start left the team with a lot of room to make up after the first day, which ended with the team in eighth place overall. Johnson and Simon sat in ninth place, while Porter and Schultz were in fifth.The Crimson closed the gap through much of Sunday, but the final positioning was still in question going into the regatta’s final race.“It was really close between about four...
...Year honors.PRINCETON 9, HARVARD 3Princeton got to Crimson ace hurler Shawn Haviland early and often in the opener, beginning with a two-run blast in the top of the first inning that gave the Tigers an early lead and ending with a two-run dunker in the eighth that put the game out of reach.After Andrew Salini worked out a two-out walk against Haviland in the first, Wendkos drove a low fastball over the wall in left-center, silencing the home crowd and putting Princeton in front, 2-0. “We were a little stunned...
...moms who take up their kids' sports with the right attitude, the rewards can be long lasting. Gail Silberstein, an attorney in Newton, Mass., started rowing when her daughters did in eighth and ninth grades. Now the girls are off at college, but many a dawn finds their 50-year-old mother sculling down the Charles, gliding past leafy shores busy with wildlife. "I never would have found this," she says, "if my kids hadn't shown...
...creative free-for-all, when Deconstruction, Expressionism and a half a dozen other unorthodoxies reign. But as it turns out, Modernism never actually died. What it did was evolve--sometimes into something really interesting. To see what that means right now just stand at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City and run your eyes up and down the shimmying silhouette of the Hearst Tower, a new office building by the British architect Norman Foster. What you'll be looking at may be the most gratifying specimen of Modernist invention since Foster's "gherkin...
...best we’ve ever done in proportion to the number of contestants,” Robert Gogan, supervisor of waste management and spearhead of the Recyclemania campaign here, said of the “Per Capita Classic” results, comparing last year’s eighth place out of 48 colleges to this year’s seventh out of 87. “We were pleased to see that we beat Yale, and quite convincingly,” he said. The Bulldogs placed a distant 38th in that category. The only other Ivy League school...