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Freshman Julia Rozier finished the 800-meter run in 2:18.76, five seconds off the lead. Senior Vicky Henderson finished seventh in the 400-meter dash finals in 1:00.02, and Freshman Rikka Strong took ninth in the mile in 5:32.23. Freshman Chidimma Kalu led the Crimson in the 60-meter dash, finishing third in the preliminaries in 7.86 seconds before picking up fourth in the finals in 7.83 seconds. Freshman Owanaemi Briggs, who finished 12th in the 60-meter dash preliminaries, picked up an eighth-place finish in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.61 seconds...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Keeps Pace at Harvard Invite | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...beat. The central canon of ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower, man by a medium branch placed at the side, and earth by the shortest branch, placed before the heaven branch. From this came the rikka (standing) and the nage-ire (thrown in) styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grass Moon Master | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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