Word: 3rd
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...Several Harvard seniors, led by tri-captains Pia Chock and Angie Peluse, turned in the most impressive performances of their careers. Chock finished sixth in the 100-yard butterfly, seventh in the 200-yard freestyle and 3rd in the 200-yard fly. Her mark of 2:01.98 set a new team record, which had been previously held by sophomore Lovisa Gustafsson...
...Crimson's results from this year read like a laundry list of success: 1st at the Moody Trophy , 6th at the Admiral's Cup, 2nd at the Frii's Team Races at Tufts, 1st by an incredible 74 points at the Boston Dinghy Club Championships, 3rd at the Southern New England Team Race, 4th place in the Truxtun Umsted Championship at Navy, 2nd place at the Charleston team Race, 2nd place at the New England Team Race Championships, and first place at the New England Dinghy Championships...
Boston’s Spring Fashion Weekend kicks off on Thursday, May 3rd and runs through May 6th. Part educational tool, part business venture and part fun, Fashion Weekend brings together consumers, designers, buyers and store owners in an attempt to alert everyone involved to the hottest fashions for the fall and to help set up a network to continue the promotion of fashion in Boston...
...with caves, many of them bearing ancient Buddhist wall paintings dating back to around the 4th to the 5th century A.D. The core of this already much defaced religious center, as it once was, consists of two gigantic standing figures of Buddha, recessed into the cliffs sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The larger of them is 175 ft. high--purportedly the biggest standing Buddha in the world. On Saturday, a spokesman for Mohammed Omar claimed to the Associated Press that soldiers using explosives had "destroyed 80% of the statues. There is only a small amount left...
Pilgrims, travelers and conquerors from the 3rd century A.D. onwards have marveled at the two towering Buddha statues of Bamiyan, in central Afghanistan. Hewn from sandstone cliffs, these two giants, 53 m and 35 m high, are a fusion of Classical Greek and Indian art that flourished along the ancient Silk Road. Despite their massive size, the standing Buddhas possess an ethereal lightness. It's as if they managed to levitate above a millennium of warfare and calamity that has plagued Afghanistan, at least until the fiercely Islamic Taliban rulers fixed the Buddhas in their gun-sights...