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...captain Jeff Overington. “I started rowing in ninth grade because a few of my friends were doing it, and they needed a fourth guy to row a four,” Overington said. “We had a great coach and won all of our races, so I decided to stick with it.” Early success in crew, along with good friends and coaches, have kept the Kingston, Ontario native hooked on rowing as he heads into his eighth year with the sport. “The guys I started rowing with are still...
...Ronan, and Doon, played by Harry Treadaway. The pair discovers one of the city’s most ancient secrets and the key to their survival. Their adventure, fueled by Lina’s love for her baby sister and Doon’s desire to help the human race, takes place under, around, and through the city, unveiling the secret escape from the City of Ember. Ronan, who previously earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in “Atonement,” has proven her merit once again. Her performance is heart-warming and inspired...
...officials and community members. Karen A. Hacker, executive director of the Institute for Community Health and a professor at Harvard Medical School, presented findings from the most recent mental health surveys conducted at the city’s middle and high schools. The results, which were broken down by race and language spoken at home, showed that Asian high school students reported feeling sad or hopeless for two or more weeks more frequently than other racial groups. They were also most likely to have considered suicide, while multiracial students were most likely to have actually attempted it. The results also...
...catchphrases, none used more liberally than “hot, flat, and crowded,” which appears in Friedman’s sermon so many times that it could give John McCain’s “maverick” a run for its money in the race of overuse. And, while the world may actually be as hot, flat, and crowded as the Minnesota State Fair, Friedman’s readership should be forewarned that his latest book is not hot (in the Paris Hilton sense of the word), that it’s uneven, and that...
...offers us mostly platitudes, empty truisms about the unnecessary excess of our commercial world. And yet these truisms are not entirely irrelevant. In the 1930s the economist John Maynard Keynes told us that the “ecosnomic problem” is not the permanent problem of the human race. One hundred years from now, he wrote, our grandchildren would have found a solution to that problem. But 80 years after the Great Depression, in the midst of an unprecedented banking crisis that has many Americans wondering if the economy will bring our nation to ruin, it is a fair...