Word: marathons
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...something good could still come out of Rambouillet. The 17-day negotiating marathon concluded in an embarrassing mess: U.S. officials pleading in the last seven minutes before the final, final, final deadline for any concession that might keep the peace process alive. Instead of signatures on a blueprint for the future of Kosovo, all they got was a promise in theory from the ethnic Albanians to subscribe to the NATO plan a couple of weeks down the road. What Belgrade got was a delicious reprieve from American dictates and the missiles that NATO had threatened to launch if Serb strongman...
...safety of open-seas racing. The Around Alone follows a 27,000-mile, four-stop route that begins and ends in Charleston, S.C. (see map). Two of the 87 competitors in its five quadrennial races have been lost at sea, and only 42 have completed the treacherous eight-month marathon...
...more a foot-traveler than a foot-stomper, register early for Sunday's Cape Cod Times Marathon, Half-Marathon or five-miler. All three races start from Barnstable High School, West Main Street, Hyannis. For registration information, contact Sean Doherty...
Lorenz was followed in this marathon event by sophomore Danielle Backes, who clocked in only a few body-lengths behind...
...town's secrets and tells them; he weaves fatal mischief. "Give me what I want," he says, "and I'll go away." But if that gift were your own blood, would you offer it up to save your town? King's first original mini-series script is a marathon of communal anxiety with a spooky moral: we are ready to mortgage our children for our own restless comfort...