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...Radcliffe lightweight crew is a program in flux.A team that had consistently won medals at the IRA National Championships, notching a bronze medal as recently as 2006, has fallen short over the past two years.In 2007, the crew’s varsity eight fell just off the medal stand, losing to a suprise Bucknell boat, which won the gold. The team was just four seconds short of third, ending the crew’s six-year run of medaling.Last spring, the program fell to a sixth- place finish, as Wisconsin regained its national championship crown.In order to respond, the crew...
Panting heavily, Frederick thrust himself through the doorway of the statue gallery and, with an anguished cry, fell to the ground. He tried to improvise poetry to calm himself; his artistic endeavors always had a pacifying effect...
...Harvard crews take to the water this year, they will be looking for redemption after a 2008 season that lacked their usual displays of dominance. The heavyweight varsity eight failed to make the Grand Final of the Sprints for the first time in 44 years. Likewise, the lightweights also fell short—their varsity crew was conspicuously absent from the Grand Final for the first time in over six decades.For the heavyweights, the Sprints result differed markedly from their performance during the rest of the season. The varsity eight went 5-1 in dual racing, falling only to Brown...
...Louis-Sébastian Lenormand climbed to the top of an observatory tower in Montpellier, France, leaned over the edge, and jumped. An astonished crowd watched as he fell to the ground with the aid of a new contraption called the parachute and landed unhurt...
...Sarkozy's climb-down on Petrella, their fury was presumably further stoked at learning the back story of the move: Sarkozy's Italian-born wife, Carla Bruni, and her sister, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, had lobbied the President not to extradite the gravely ill Petrella to Rome - it even fell to the sisters to personally break the news of that reprieve to the former terrorist. "We could not let this woman die," Bruni told the daily Libération Monday in explaining her intervention in Petrella's case. "The situation had become intolerable, dangerous...