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...After an initial false start, the Crimson quickly sprang ahead and led the field for the rest of the 2000 meters, with a push in the last 500 that improved its lead...
...What makes this fixation all the more striking is that Brown is, in so many other ways, such a formidable figure. His more statesmanlike qualities were richly evident last week when he arrived at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels, sprang out of his limousine and led his retinue into a conference where he argued, with urgency and conviction, for extending the chance of education to every child in the world. Brown's face is already familiar in Brussels. As Tony Blair's Chancellor of the Exchequer, he has represented the U.K. in international financial negotiations for a decade...
...helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender to the richness of Tolkien's vision, the immersive detail of it, the faux-archaic diction barely registers. Children, as a short work, never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy...
...time Giuliani was introduced, his audience had heard some six hours of encouragement on topics ranging from spiritual health to real estate. Still, they sprang to their feet cheering as he took the stage, indoor fireworks booming, streamers cascading around his slightly hunched shoulders, Frank Sinatra blaring from the sound system...
...fact, 600,000 migrants went to Britain in the first two years, more than half of them from Poland, and more than 300,000 East Europeans landed in Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside churches across Ireland advertised for laborers with many of the notices written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun adding road signs in Polish because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...