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...sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored to it by a web of radiating ropes bobbed five smaller vessels, the 35-foot whaleboats that, on better days, the whaleship dispatched to harpoon the bowhead whales that brought white men to these remote climes. And, completing the scene, forming its outer perimeter, nine other whaling vessels swung at anchor in the eerily calm waters of this 37°F cloudless Arctic morning. A day earlier, the winds that often slice through this storied...
...right.” Outings to Fenway Park for games between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays and a talent show also appeared on the week’s docket. The year’s two new additions to Senior Week, a trip to the Harpoon Brewery and an event celebrating the “Last Students Standing” in Senior Bar 2006 were also well attended and well-received, with the latter drawing over 300 students to the Winthrop Junior Common Room. As successful as Senior Week ’06 was, Chestnut sees room...
...Head” while playing “The Harvard Game: 350 years of trivia,” a board game available at Lamont, Corker said. The name of the beer was proposed by five of the 40 seniors that were selected to go on a field trip to Harpoon Brewery to sample the beer, marking the contribution of the class of 2006, who will be long gone before the pub opens. Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), which has been integral to the planning of Pub Nights and the permanent pub, may continue to be closely involved in the pub?...
...them as media liaison and anecdote prodder was a Little Rock lawyer whom friends of Bill Clinton have taken to calling ''Ahab.'' It is a befitting moniker: from the moment he began telling journalists last year that Clinton was lying about the draft, Cliff Jackson has been out to harpoon the President. The question is why. Surprisingly, the two have much in common. Both were overachievers who grew up in small Arkansas towns; both won scholarships to Oxford; they even served as co-captains on the same basketball team. Yet despite their similarities, Jackson and Clinton never became close: although...
...shores last year. The Administration, not eager to rock its relations with Japan, may ask the Court of Appeals for a rehearing of the case and could possibly take the issue to the Supreme Court. The outcome will determine when Japan's whalers will have to hang up their harpoon guns. STOCK TRADING An Insider Faces Jail...