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Junior Clara Blattler led the women’s team to a fifth-place team finish by winning the pole vault with a personal-best 3.80 meter leap, while the men’s team scored just eight points on the way to placing eighth in the Heptagonals Championships at the Armory in New York City. The women’s team opened strong, scoring 28 of its 50 points on day one, leaving the Crimson second behind Cornell’s 54 Day 1 points. Junior Jitka Tomas placed in the pole vault, scoring two points with a fifth...
...third in the 500-yard freestyle and 800-yard freestyle relay. Sophomore Eric Lynch placed second in the 1650-yard freestyle and also gained fourth-place finishes in the 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyles. Junior Luke Sanders took first and sixth place in the one- and six-meter dives, respectively. Junior Pat Quinn, sophomores David Guernsey, Bill Jones and Dan Jones, and freshmen Mason Brunnick and Alex Meyer also gave solid performances to gain points for the Crimson. Despite these strong results, the Crimson could not overtake the dominant Tigers, even after a close third day. Harvard was also...
...road to Bulukumba, a rice-growing hamlet in eastern Indonesia's Sulawesi province, is rutted and worn. But just past the district line stands an ornate, three-meter-high marble edifice festooned with Arabic calligraphy. "Religious Crash Program," announces the massive signboard, before detailing the four Shari'a bylaws Bulukumba has implemented since 2002: no alcohol; mandatory wearing of Islamic attire; required payment of Islamic alms; and Koranic proficiency for students and prospective married couples. As some of the first places to pass such bylaws in Indonesia, Bulukumba and five other regencies in southern Sulawesi have served as an inspiration...
...Faulkner opened the meet for Harvard with a second-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, while Mooney added a pair of top-six finishes. Cutter chipped in by claiming third in the 100-yard free while Faulkner took sixth. Freshman diver Caitlin High placed fifth in the one-meter dive and fourth in the three-meter competition...
...really nice to start off with that second place,” she said. “It sort of came out of nowhere but I’ve been training [the 200 IM] really hard this year.”In the one-meter dive, Papadakis took second to Princeton’s Katie Giarra but still managed to better the Ivy League record. Both Giarra’s score of 307.00 and Papadakis’s score of 285.70 exceeded the previous mark of 281.5 points, set in 2001.The rest of the leaderboard was painted orange and black...