Word: spedding
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Which explains how, at a community park in Gaffney, S.C., last Wednesday, I found my reasonably fit 34-year-old body straining to keep up with the health-conscious 53-year-old Governor as he sped around a track for four miles at the impressive pace of 7 1/2 minutes per mile. Pulling up lame, I watched while Bush cruised the final mile by himself. "It's unfair," Bush said graciously as I wheezed. "You didn't have a chance to warm...
...already wearing his overcoat, holding the door of his ornate Kremlin study open for his successor. "Your office," he told Putin, with a stiff sweep of the arm. Soon afterward, the traffic in central Moscow was stopped, perhaps for the last time for Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, as his convoy sped to his country residence. And a couple of hours later, Putin issued one of his first presidential decrees: "On Guarantees for the President of the Russian Federation...and Members of his Family." The decree provided bodyguards, pension--and total immunity from prosecution--for Yeltsin. Putin, a veteran...
...close to Lopez, "Jennifer was leaving the club when the shots were fired. She hit the floor and then got up and exited as fast as possible." After Combs came out, the couple got into the rear seat of a 1999 Lincoln Navigator owned by his record company, which sped away past a police cruiser with flashing lights and through several red lights. When police stopped the car they reportedly found a 9-mm semiautomatic pistol on the floor of the front seat. They arrested Combs, his bodyguard, his driver and Lopez...