Word: 48th
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...Somebody has to drop the 7,000 pounds of varicolored tissue and motley Mylar. It's done by a crew of about 110 volunteers perched on roofs and setbacks of seven buildings from 43rd to 48th Streets. They work under the guidance of confetti master Treb Heining, the Newport Beach, Calif., balloonatic whose company, Treb, Inc., is the go-to outfit for balloon effusions at the Republican National Conventions. Since 1991 Treb has coordinated the confetti fete for the Times Square Alliance, the business association in charge of the big show...
...fewer than a dozen people were making sure Sly Stone got to the Grammys on time. ?Are we late?? asked the 61-year-old songwriter and 1960s icon, from under a motorcycle helmet. ?I thought we were right on time.? It was noon, five hours before the start of 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, and Stone sat, placidly, in the trailer car of a stretch purple motorcycle in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills mini-mall. Several hours later, the man known as the J.D. Salinger of funk emerged onstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles...
...hard,” said women’s nordic captain Jennifer Harlow. “I thought we did better than other teams with our waxing,” she added. The equipment preparation paid off for the team and especially for Harlow. Coming off a team-best 48th place finish at St. Lawrence, Harlow jumped seventeen places to finish in 31st on Saturday with a time of 20:58:5. Harlow is looking for even more success in the future as she continues to recover from a hip flexor injury that she suffered in July...
Harvard’s Nordic and Alpine skiing teams saw their first action of the season over the weekend at the St. Lawrence Carnival. The Crimson finished ninth out of 13 teams at the Lake Placid Olympic Complex. In the Nordic events, junior Jennifer Harlow’s 48th-place finish in the 5k led the way for a women’s squad that finished 11th in that event. For the men, freshman Dave McCahill recorded the top time, finishing 61st in 29:25.2. He was followed by freshman Clem Wright at 74th and sophomore Oliver Burruss in 82nd...
...Crimson’s top scorer outside of Scherf for the second year in a row. Her time this season was 18:09.8, which was good enough for 22nd place. Bourne, freshman Lauren Walker and fellow classmate Jessica Bryant came through the line in 43rd, 46th and 48th, respectively. On the men’s side, junior Sean Barrett was the only Harvard runner to place better than 45th. His time of 25:49.3 was 37th in the individual standings. Barrett was followed up by two sophomores—Brian Holmquist and Andrew Lipkin—whose respective times...