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...stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...
...this money and we got these experts and we got these new programs, it would be an amazing passing of the torch from a student group to professionals,” Truszkowska says. “It’s a job that Coalition’s been doing for a long time, but on the other hand it’s really something that needs to be done with a lot of money and professionals...
...envious,” Birtwell said. “One of the hardest moments of my life was the last game I played for Harvard. It was tough [coming back] because I knew I didn’t belong and that it was time to pass the torch. It would be nice to go back and do it again...
...majority of Shetlanders descend from the Norse, who inhabited and ruled the isles from A.D. 900 to 1469. Shetlanders are quick to point out and celebrate their Viking lineage. On the last Tuesday of every January, the famous Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival takes place. Teams of torch-bearing men in Viking outfits parade through the streets of Lerwick, then make their rounds to various sites to perform skits. Legend has it the pagan event used to mark the end of Yuletide and was meant to conjure the sun to appear after the long, dark winter...
...sold 25 CDs that night, though she wasn’t even on the bill. The concert took place at the Somerville Theatre, the same venue where Lord had fallen in love with the music of Shawn Colvin nearly 15 years earlier. Now she was passing the torch...