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Most of the lightweight varsity rowers who won the Eastern League Sprints Championship last May had never rowed before coming to Harvard. Junior Peter Sharis, who joined the program as a novice in 1986, rowed in every race on the varsity heavyweight crew last year...
...What the coaches do here is create the idea that, 'Yes, rowing is fun and a great way to spend time,'" said Mark Coyne, Harvard's varsity lightweight coxswain last year. "This includes a series of challenges designed to get you deeper into the program and to eventually get you freshmen who haven't raced yet," Harvard freshman heavyweight Coach Fred Brochelt said. "But it is also the culmination of our fall season on the water...
...Women's Lightweight Four will race together as a team and for the first time, the crew will officially represent the U.S. Last year, the crew was listed under the Groton School...
JOSEPH KENNEDY--As the heir to what is regarded as the first family of Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn...
...love with factoids and the pronoun we, launched its own TV entry last week. But USA Today: The Television Show -- syndicated to 156 stations, most of which air it in the early evening - -- bears little resemblance to a newscast. The nightly half-hour is a buckshot spray of brief, lightweight features, snippets of interviews and idle trivia (limousine sales in the U.S. rose from 4,000 in 1983 to 7,000 in 1987). The closest it came to a breaking story was a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Robert Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center, as he tracked Hurricane...