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Harvard women dominated the throwing events, with junior Molly Boyle winning the weight throw and freshman Eda Karesin taking the shot put. Crimson pole vaulters finished strong as well, with juniors Sally Stanton and Jitka Tomas finishing tied for second while junior Clara Blatter earned a point in fourth place...
...While a man hollers behind the kids, the boy lets one ring loose just as the last ring he threw loops down and around the intended pole, a moment of serendipity amidst a controlled chaos...
...think there are any buses. The streets have been taken over by the paraders.'' Li Zhen and I said goodbye. That was the last glimpse I ever had of my dear old friend. A month later, she committed suicide after a particularly humiliating experience. The Red Guards placed a pole across the gate of the conservatory less than four feet from the ground and made Li Zhen crawl under it to demonstrate that she was ''a running dog of the British imperialists'' because of her education in England. They then held a ''struggle'' meeting to compel her to confess...
...sing. In Kafr Qaddum, an Arab village in the hills of the West Bank not far from Nablus, the people have strewn boulders across the road to stop intrusions. They are frightened. The sun is bright, vivid. A red-green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered...
...running. If we don’t have anyone in an event, that’s a lot of points that we didn’t even have a chance to get.” The Crimson did make a showing in the women’s pole vault, as juniors Clara Blattler, Sally Stanton and Jitka Tomas took second, third, and fourth, respectively. “That was good that we got all but the first points in that event because I think all of our pole vaulters are competing,” Christensen said...