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...structures are giving way to new, improvised setups: a patchwork of competing cultural factors is prompting European families to adopt a wider variety of living situations. In rural Catholic regions, e.g., Pope Benedict XVI's birthplace in Bavaria, people still appreciate traditional gender roles: men make money, while women stick to kids and kitchen. But Western egocentrism invites young couples to reduce family to a meager dinks model (double income, no kids). At my workplace, I am surrounded by such married couples. And more and more female singles see the emancipation of women as closely connected with leading a solitary...
...Stick Figures...
...Muri—a former MIT standout—has encountered the same problem. Although she was a member of nine national teams, Muri never made it to the Olympics, simply because there were not enough seats available.“Lightweight women get the short end of the stick in international realm,” Muri says. “People ask why I wasn’t in the Olympics — there are not enough opportunities for lightweight rowers.”However, at the moment, Kharrazi is more focused on this season than a future...
...weeks earlier. The Big Red had the advantage of racing in a longer boat, and the IRA officials had the unenviable task of awarding one gold medal into a race in which there were two valid champions.“I know we got the short end of the stick, but that race at IRAs last year—I’ve never been a part of an effort that intense and that focused,” says senior coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor. “I really can’t think...
...best walk-ons have become largely indistinguishable from recruited rowers. Usually only 12 to 15 oarsmen–recruits and former walk-ons–return for the sophomore-year campaign. “It’s really the people who have rowed before who choose to stick with it,” Muri says. “Those who rowed before they came here just keep on rowing.”After two seasons, Carpenter has chosen to take this fall off to decide whether or not to return to rowing in the spring.“It?...