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Nothing was wrong with his theatrical instincts, however. After the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner at the medal ceremony, Hamilton grabbed an American flag and skated an exhilarating victory lap around the arena with it. When it was all over, Hamilton reflected, "The whole last four years have been for this night. I've worked so hard, trained so hard, waited so long. I wanted it to be special. I wanted my greatest program. It wasn't my best, but I did it. I came here to win the gold medal. Maybe it wasn't pretty...
...keyboard shows more versatility and a better "touch" than those found in the Apple II system. Moreover, it is light enough to rest on one's lap...
William Pate, the first Crimson runner, put Harvard in the lead, and teammate Paul O'Leary proved to be just as invincible as he handed off to Brad Bunney on the third leg Starting out modestly. Bunney burned his opponents on the last lap as he stretched out both his legs and Harvard's lead As a result, Steven Ezeji-Okoye could concentrate on sustaining the Crimson's lead with a brisk pace towards victory...
...looked like it would all hinge on the final relay when the Nittany Lions Rob Kramer opened up a 5-yd, lead on teammate Gerry Ross and Harvard freshman Lars Reierson. But in the final lap, Reierson charged ferociously past both opponents to give the aquamen the minimum 57 points required for the win, capping the Crimson's gradual return to Eastern swimming supremacy...
...hard to decide which is more horrible, the matter-of-factness of the Venetian lap dog, familiar from many a Carpaccio, licking up the satyr's blood, or the prim, detached attentiveness of Apollo as he peels the skin. Yet the whole unlikely scene is anchored by one riveting device: Titian must have seen boar hunts in the woods around his native Cadore, and the satyr is strung on the tree like a wild pig ready for dressing, every stiff hair on his matted legs contributing its realism to the myth. On the right is another of Apollo...