Word: stroke
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...Final.And the victory was from start to finish—an impressive feat for an American squad that usually falls behind the blistering pace set by European crews at the beginnings of international races.“A lot of the Europeans go off the line at ridiculously high stroke rates,” Lofgren said. “But our coach [Dave O’Neil] believes in long, strong strokes, and even though it was slow and steady, we still got off the line first.” This success did not go unnoticed. As a result...
...contributor to the success of the women’s varsity lightweights a sesaon ago, as the varsity eight took home a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and grabbed a bronze at IRas in 2006.And she did it in just one year.Starting off her freshman season stroking for the varsity eight, Kharrazi rowed in the lead position throughout the spring—a tremendous feat for a first-year Radcliffe oarsman and only duplicated recently by last year’s co-captain, Sarah Bates ’06, who was the varsity stroke as a freshman in 2002.But when...
...only follow the path laid them by a group of lightweights racing in a four for the first time all spring.Harvard bolted to a quick lead off of the start, pacing the field through the first 500 meters.“From 600 meters in,” says stroke and 2006-2007 captain Nick Downing, “we were in absolute control of that race. There’s a point in a race where I think to myself, ‘It would be an absolute travesty if we lost this race...
...their fault.” Rather, outside forces like Boo’s alcoholism and Bette’s miscarriages saddle both the couple and their only child, Matt, with intense emotions for which they can find no outlet. Phillips, who plays a character that has had a stroke and has trouble speaking intelligibly, says that “the theme of the play as a whole is the absence of communication.” Durang has admitted that the play is largely based on his own childhood experiences. When Harvard first started the VDP in the spring...
Success happens, but the failures are more memorable, and more spectacular. The facial contortions and annoying speech patterns that made Jim Carrey funny did not work in dramatic fare like “The Majestic,” and Michael Jordan’s endurance and sweet stroke did not propel him to stardom in baseball. Some talents simply do not hold up well under experimentation...