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...spectator, but you don't quite count as participant either. At several watering stations, when I reached for a Gatorade, the woman told me, "I'm sorry, the drinks are for runners only," and I would patiently explain that I had walked from Hopkinton. Suspicious, she would relent grudgingly. Take one if you must, but move on, she seemed to say. We don't want anything to do with hiking boots and blue jeans...
...does George relent? Because he cares abouthis daughter's happiness. The night after one ofhis typical whining sessions (in which hesuggested holding the wedding at The Steak Pit),he sees Annie asleep on the couch where she hadbeen reading a Modern Bride article on "How toGive a Beautiful Wedding on a Budget." Overcomewith emotion, George begins to read aloud: "Bakeyour own wedding cake...Find a good tailor andcopy a designer dress...Have a friend take thepictures." Horrified, he vows that from thatmoment on, he will "go with the flow." No more ofthis insensitive caterwauling about money. Ofcourse, George...
...Crimson didn't relent on Saturday, however. Led by fly-half Andrew Pinkerton, Harvard came out of the locker room to score 18 unanswered points and solidify its place at the top of the Metro League...
...over Tibet in 1959, the aggressors tried to eradicate the captive country's culture. In particular, the communists denounced Tibetan medicine as feudal superstition, and the number of doctors practicing the 2,000-year-old, herb-based discipline shrank from thousands to 500. But since the Chinese began to relent on this issue in recent years, Tibetans have returned to their traditional medicines, which they often find more effective and less harsh than Western drugs...
...Rehnquist would not relent. When both federal judges and Democratic leaders in Congress resisted his efforts to expedite executions, he moved to achieve the same result from the high bench this term. His vehicle was a Georgia case, McCleskey v. Zant. Though it meant going further than the case required, the persuasive Chief Justice fashioned a 6-to-3 majority in favor of setting up procedural obstacles to repeated habeas corpus requests...