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...heavyweight crew won the Charlie Smith Cup by defeating Northeastern by just over a length, winning 5:37.3 to 5:40.9. With the victory over Northeastern, the men finished their third straight undefeated season on the Charles and beat Brown's seven-year-old river record...
With unusually favorable conditions helping the Harvard men (3-1) to enjoy a record-breaking day, they surged to a quick three-seat lead from the start and extended it to a full length at the 1,000-meter mark...
...Crimson, ranked fourth in the nation and second in the East, maintained its one-length lead over the Huskies, ranked 11th in the country, for the rest of the race...
Having just started previews for a May 18 off-Broadway opening, Kaufman and company are still trying to pare down the play's bulky three-hour length. But the work's passion and power are clearly in evidence. On a stage populated mainly by wooden chairs and tables, eight actors talk directly to the audience, describing the interviews they did and re-creating them at the same time. There are choice, often harrowing details: the bartender recalling that the two killers paid for their pitcher of beer entirely in dimes and quarters; a deputy sheriff noting that the only place...
...Technology and a computer programmer for Lucent Technologies in California's Silicon Valley. Mock, 39, is a divorced mother of three in Pontiac, Mich., and a former welfare client who until last Christmas had never worked steadily. But in their diversity, they exemplify one reason for the amazing length and strength of the U.S. boom. Despite all the recent gyrations in the stock market, the longest economic expansion in U.S. history has not only created incredible numbers of new jobs but also brought into the labor force the most varied sorts of new workers to fill those jobs and keep...