Word: marathons
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DAMASCUS, Syria: Secretary of State Warren Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad Wednesday for a marathon 4 1/2 hour session of talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire between Israel and Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon. Despite canceling a Tuesday meeting with Christopher, Assad insists he was not snubbing the U.S. envoy. U.S. officials speculated that Assad, who has battled health problems for more than a decade, may have been sick. As soon as Christopher's meeting with Assad ended, the secretary traveled in a heavily guarded motorcade to Chtaura, in the heart of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, to meet...
...close as Americans can come to royalty, and the price at which people are acquiring momentos and pieces of their lives certainly reinforces that impression. Part of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate is up for sale at New York's venerable Sotheby's auction house in a four-day marathon sale. Well into its second day, the sales have exceeded even the auctioneers wildest expectations: a walnut humidor, a gift to President Kennedy from the comedian Milton Berle that was expected to sell for $2,000 to $2,500 went for $574,500; $442,500 for an oak rocking chair...
Race officials had feared as many as 12,000 "bandits," unofficial marathon entrants, might attempt to run in yesterday's marathon in addition to the largest-ever field of official runners, according to an Associated Press report...
...Before I started training in November I hadn't run five miles much less a marathon," he said...
...100th installation of the Boston Marathon was run, the Red Sox played their annual 11 a.m. game (and lost--a tradition for the 1996 season, it seems), and the Harvard softball team played its old-time rival in Yale...