Word: stroke
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...course boathouse as violent storms rolled in during the early afternoon. “We were just getting ready to start and a huge storm began, so the raced got delayed and we had to hide in this little hut for an hour,” sophomore varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “All the crews had to take their boats out and run for the nearest shelter.”But when the time came, when the wind had died down and the referees resumed their positions, neither rain nor lightning could keep the Tigers from fulfilling...
...Yale loss showed] we’re capable of doing really great stuff,” varsity stroke Chip Schellhorn said. “We just have to put it together. On one hand it’s encouraging that we can come back, but on the other it’s discouraging that we didn’t race the whole piece like that...
...Navy second varsity overcame a six-seat deficit after the halfway mark to nip Harvard’s second varsity by a seat in Annapolis—a loss that forced the Crimson to reexamine its race plan and stroke rating after the midway point...
...into Sprints a year ago. The 2005 squad blitzed the field during the dual season to snatch the No. 1 ranking in the weeks before Sprints.This dual season was less dominant and more tumultuous, marked both by brilliance in bad weather and an uncharacteristic letdown in the final 20 strokes against Brown.With two dual losses, the Crimson varsity is seeded third behind favorite Princeton and Brown, the surprise of the dual season. Brown ousted Harvard by a seat in a come-from-behind win in Providence, and the Tigers dismantled the Crimson in one of their many open-water wins...
Bernazzani had arrived in New Orleans from Washington four months earlier. He had spent the previous four years helping the FBI set up the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, and when he came to New Orleans, he decided--in a stroke of either brilliance or desperation--to do the exact same thing. "The violence was so ingrained in the youth, you could not arrest your way out of it," he says. But what he could do was try to get everyone--police, FBI agents, prosecutors--to share information. "The missing piece was not intelligence but the integration of intelligence, just like...