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...subdivided, etched ultimately by split thousandths of a second. She'll try to win five gold medals, negotiating an intricate shoal of qualifying heats, medal races, meals, catnaps, jumps and baton passes. Five golds in one Olympics has not been done by a track athlete since the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, blew through Paris in 1924. Weeks before the opening ceremony, Jones is already the story of the Games...
...skinny inlets and alleys along the way, and a lot of time and patience. We could at best splash in it a little, to see what it felt like, and what we might learn--and unlearn--by stopping along the way. It was worth remembering Huck Finn's lesson: the river is the sanctuary; the shore is where you get into trouble...
...forklift around his barges, sorting old car seats and lawn ornaments and tractor chassis into separate piles for recycling. All sandy hair and freckles, dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen...
...quipped to Ford, "You dead yet?" 35. Break ground, in a way 36. __ the Dog 37. Oklahoma! character __ Annie 38. Sierra __, which is edging toward civil war 40. Credit-checking org. 41. __ es Salaam, Tanzania 42. Source of Italian bubbly 45. J. Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries...
Best friends since middle school, Brian Finn (Edward Norton) and Jake Schram (Ben Stiller) are single and successful young men living on New York's Upper West Side. Both men are completely committed to their faith, and equally committed to their respective congregations as a priest and a rabbi. Thinking of themselves as a modern "God Squad, like the new cops who want to shake up the precinct," each tries to enliven their services when the energy level begins to ebb by spicing up their sermons with stand-up comedy. At one point, Jake actually says, "But seriously, folks...