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...would impound me," Said the Ibis, barely speaking as the Eli's upped the score; "Oh, the horrors I have witnessed of the Lampoon's dirty business-- The disturbing tests of 'fitness' they practiced with me before-- Never will I again go back to that place I was before," Wept the Ibis, "nevermore...
...Stone Professor of International Trade and Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, who is one of the most outspoken representatives of the economics profession and an avid supporter of the global debt relief program. Or it might have been Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who reportedly wept when talking to Bono about the merits of debt relief...
Saville's coach, Ron Weigel, behaved as theatrically as his protege. He wept, threw a chair and even blamed politics for Saville's elimination. When she had calmed down, Saville realized that race walking--already subject to criticism as an Olympic sport--had not been well served by her distress. "I love this sport," she avowed. "If nothing else, it makes you the toughest person around...
...First and foremost, says Mitch Hull, national teams director for U.S. wrestling, "he's maybe inhumanly strong." American wrestler Matt Ghaffari, 38, who has spent his career trying to defeat Karelin, can unhappily vouch for that. In Atlanta the 6-ft. 4-in., 286-lb. Ghaffari wept in frustration on the silver-medal stand after he extended Karelin into overtime, but still lost. "I wrestled my heart and soul out," he says. His performance was so moving that he is now sought as a motivational speaker. He can certainly speak to never giving up: he is 0 for 22 against...
That did it. That broke her. She lurched, tears running down her cheeks, reached for Rae and pulled her close, holding her as if they might take her again. "I told myself I wouldn't cry," she said. The interpreter wept. Linda wept. I wept. Right then, right that minute, the heavens opened up, and it poured a monsoon starter kit on us, just an all-out Noah. Yeah, even the sky wept...