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Schutte, usually a sprinter, had won the 400 and the 200--the latter in a sprint to the finish--before running the relay. Unsworth had won the mile in dramatic fashion with a final-lap kick and ran the 800 before the relay. Burton rant he mile as well as 3,000, while Moynihan won the 800 and the 3,000. Burton and Moynihan ran the relay a mere 20 minutes later...
...They ran about a 4:01, which is about seven seconds slower than last weekend," Hanson said. "However, we had some injuries and not everyone was a 400 runner. To run that good of a time and to lap a team is amazing. Lapping another team is always exciting...
...follow the Green Eggs and Ham rule: Serve up a dish made of anything imaginable as long as it's delicious. Merely edible will not do. The books below, our picks as the best of 1998, are perfect for the human small enough to condescend to sit on your lap and big enough to grasp that every single thing written in these books could happen, even to them. Though we've categorized them (because that's the adult thing to do), the best books as always are beyond order...
...second portion of the concert featured English pieces, some of which were performed on a "normal" Renaissance harp, an instrument about the size of an abnormally large cat and held in the lap similarly. These ballads, with names like "My thoughts are winged with hope" and "Watkin's Ale" combined with the petite harp to bring to mind images of wandering minstrels. The last piece, "Amarilli," was an effective and thoughtfully chosen ending, as it combined the Italian and English traditions, drawing together the first and second halves of the concert...
Suing companies for crimes such as over-production could cause widespread harm, especially considering America's penchant for allowing liability lawsuits to spin out of control. (Remember the woman who won $1 million from McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee on her lap while driving and then blamed it on the container?) None of us look forward to a world in which Hostess would have to make sure that the public consumed only a healthy number of Twinkies...