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  • Meanwhile, designs by the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund-nominated label Vena Cava, who show at New York Fashion Week, launch their perfect pieces for relaxed summer dressing from May 2.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • But a mythological Sanskrit king called Vena is mentioned in the Puranas, from whom for his sins was born the first Nishada, the lowest of human beings, and Manu [250] states that the bamboo-worker is the issue of

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • "Narada said, 'Vena's son, king Prithu, O Srinjaya, we hear, fell a prey to death, In the Rajasuya sacrifice he performed, the great Rishis installed him as Emperor (of the world).

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • But in the last month, though it's still more than five feet away, Vena has inched closer to that high-school record, outclassing even himself.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • The 18-year-old Vena stood 6 feet, 4 1/2 inches in size-15 New Balance sneakers, with the nimble feet of a ballerina and tree-trunk legs that turned his road-running shorts into compression shorts.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • The official distance was 75 feet and nine inches, the longest Vena had ever thrown it in competition.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • "People bring it up all the time," Vena said of the Olympics.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • "One thing that will set Vena apart from the other top putters is that he became so good so early," Shepard said.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • The Cavaliers' coach, Jason Vigilante, graduated from Morristown and the throws coach, Carrie Lane, doubles as the personal instructor for Adam Nelson, the silver medalist in the shot put at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics—a subject that's broached frequently around Vena.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

  • "It was more of a relief, as opposed to oh-my-goodness shock," said Ron Davenport, Morristown's throws coach, who noted that Vena had been hitting that number in practice.

    N.J.'s Shot-Putter Extraordinaire Ben Cohen 2011

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