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Otherwise it was business as usual yesterday for Harvard. Despite losing six first varsity rowers from last year’s national championship boat and six more from the junior varsity, the Crimson dominated the competition in the Championship Four race. Harvard led early in the race, but its pace was overtaken in the final half mile by that of USRowing—manned by rowers from this year’s Olympics—which defeated the Crimson by 0.2 seconds. Nobody else—not even the non-collegiate competition—came close...
...first collegiate squad to cross the line and finished second, followed by Princeton and Yale. The Crimson’s top entry came in seventh overall, despite only trailing eventual winner New York Athletic Club (NYAC) by six seconds near the halfway point. Harvard fell off the pace with about half a mile left, and the race turned into a duel between Navy and NYAC. The second Crimson lightweight eight placed 10th...
...when some random horrific element comes from nowhere—that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls to a close: The slow reserved pace that initially generates bloodcurdling moments soon begins to retard the motion of the film. It never picks up pace leaving the great horror movie moments without resonance at all: They are simply empty shocks. Even the supposed surprise ending becomes an “Oh, okay” moment instead...
...definitely don’t expect to win this weekend; I just want to get out there and have a good time racing in the single as a change of pace from the eight,” Davies said. “My goal for this weekend is simply not to embarrass myself...
...both films, the prodigious attention paid to mundane routines and the eloquence given to description of physical place contrast starkly and ironically with the brisk pace of modern life...