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...athletes were flying home from an all-expenses paid trop to Hong Kong, where they were one of two American teams participating in the annual Dragon Boat races...
...boats all have a green dragon head, with yellow and red dotted horns at the stern, and a green tail at the bow. The rowers sit double-banked using small paddles...
...ceremony two weeks ago, Fa Yun, a Buddhist abbot, chanted, sprinkled water on the boat and "dotted the eyes" of the dragon. Harvard Athletic Director John P. Reardon, Jr. '60 helped in the ritual, which was designed to bestow good luck and good fortune upon the Harvard dragon boat...
...have no idea what kind of competition we're going to get," says Greg Williams, who like everyone else in the Harvard boat has never before competed in a dragon boat...
...ensure that Harvard will become a regular partcipant in the event, the First National Bank of Boston is donating a dragon boat, which will be permanently stored in Cambridge...