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...during an afternoon practice when a Yale heavyweight boat collided with a sculler going the wrong direction on the Housatonic River. The sculler was injured in the crash.“It was kind of a traumatic experience,” Young said. “We had to pull his single out of the water, and it was like Jaws. I had fun with the kids there, they were friendly, but that was kind of a little stain on the entire experience. The kid ended up being okay, though.”Since Mulcahy and Young joined the Crimson...
...know, your call at 1,200 meters down really picked me up and helped me get going again.’”It a coxswain’s unenviable task to gamble and delve into speculation, calculating how many strokes a boat needs to pull even with a crew ahead of it or to bury a crew behind it. The coxswain must simultaneously be the eyes and the voice of the boat. Rowers are told from their first day on the water to keep their eyes in the boat, staring directly at the back of the person...
...Rudd, whose tightly managed campaign began the moment he became Labor leader last December, has stressed his economic conservatism. Accused of copying government policies, he listed five "fundamental differences": Labor's plans to moderate recent workplace reforms, pump money into health and education, ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and pull troops from Iraq...
...panic attack and nixed the whole flower idea. Then I went to sleep.” As Chen continues to talk, her design begins to materialize into a sexy black top and high-waisted A-line shirt. The revived flowers, decorating a wide lace train, pull it all together. Finally, by 11:45, Chen is done—with a mere but appropriate 15 minutes to spare...
...unions, the real key to their success is whether those stoppages can be replicated and sustained over time with greater numbers of public sector workers joining the walkouts - and convince public opinion to back their efforts. That kind of strong opposition, some pundits predict, could cause Sarkozy to effectively pull the "special regime" revision off the table in order to avoid the same kind of long, bitter, and economically disastrous conflict of 1995. But such a stand-down would also badly damage Sarkozy's tireless self-promotion as a fearless reformer bent on pushing through long-delayed change that predecessors...