Word: marathoning
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...famous professor of government, who taught Dukakis at Swarthmore, says, "He was born to rule." He was always the Inevitable Michael. Things fall into place for him as by plan; he does not have to make any frantic effort to pass marker after marker on his privately charted marathon. Whether his actual first words were, as his mother likes to remember, monos mou, "all by myself," they have become the memory that gives her son his identity...
...study -- in fact that he never stayed up all night for anything. He early established the arc of his own effort, and maintains that trajectory despite diversions and passing impulses. That is the story of his current campaign for the presidency, and of his first and only Boston marathon, run when he was underage, with such awareness of his resources and the rate of their expenditure that he came in among the top third...
...given to meditation, to reading books for their own sake, to what he dismisses as "introspection." His wife says, "I have never seen him read a novel, unless you count Nick Gage's Eleni as a novel." The Army was something to be done, once, like the marathon, in order for Michael to return to his real business...
Hoping at 31 for a ninth Wimbledon singles title, the one that would leave Helen Wills Moody and everyone else behind, Navratilova warmed up for Graf with a 41st victory over Evert in their 78-match marathon. "These two are ranked 10 and 11 now," observed the former U.S. Davis Cupper Gene Scott. "Steffi is 1 through...
...Sara, add to the imbroglio. But, after all manner of marital peccadilloes, Wolitzer (In the Palomar Arms) spins her fifth novel into a bittersweet tribute as the Flaxes finally celebrate their anniversary. "We waltzed around the perimeters of the living room," Paulie recalls, "the winners in an arduous marathon dance...