Word: blurs
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...world-record time of 3:13.67. "The last 50 m were rather painful," said Hall. "This is the Olympics, all or nothing. I doff my swimming cap to the great Ian Thorpe. He had a better finish than I had." While Hall was hurting, Thorpe's mind was a blur. "When I touched the wall I had this feeling we had won," he said later. "I didn't look up or anything." The Australians celebrated with some air guitar on the pool deck...
...Suddenly, the chase crosses the road--a flash of gray and blue followed by the blur of Bates's black uniform...
When the Olympic torch bobs up the Opera House steps on Games eve, the two will blur even more. Schofield, for one, doesn't see why the Olympic ideals of "faster, higher, stronger" can't also apply to the arts: "We can measure our performance against the world's best practice, our companies against other companies, just as athletes measure themselves against competitors from other countries." Let the arts begin...
...direct control of the FARC. Taxing the traffickers in exchange for protection earns the Marxist army some $700 million a year, making it easily the wealthiest peasant guerrilla movement in history, one that is better equipped than the army it is fighting. That has prompted the U.S. to blur the distinction between counterinsurgency and the war on drugs in order to strengthen the government's forces - which many observers in the region and in the U.S. believe is a no-win proposition unless America's appetite for narcotics is diminished. But what congressional opponents of the U.S. aid package really...
...group, Elastica stopped playing together. "It just felt more graceful to bow out of the competition," says Frischmann, now 30. She refuses to speak about the impact of drugs on this period of her life. When Frischmann and Albarn separated in 1998, Albarn made their breakup the theme of Blur's 1999 album, 13, and Frischmann became known more as her ex-lover's troubled muse than as an artist in her own right...