Word: wiring
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...meters again, becoming the first person ever to win that event in back-to-back Olympics. Later in the night, Ethiopia's equally great Haile Gebrselassie won the most exciting 10,000-m run anyone's ever seen, nipping Kenya's Paul Tergat right at the wire. But neither of those races were what people went home remembering. They went home remembering Cathy...
...stance. The gun went off. She got a fair start. She was clearly behind, but running easily. She went into the far turn in the pack, and came out the near turn still trailing the Jamaican. Flashbulbs seemed to spark the tension; the whole stadium was a live wire. Nothing that was happening was missed by anyone: not one meter, not what it meant to Australia, not the larger picture. No South African white in the stadium wasn't thinking about his country's blacks, no white American wasn't contemplating what we did to the Indians. In the stretch...
...unusually high scoring affair came down to the wire with UNH outlasting a determined Harvard attack in the second half to hold on to the win. New Hampshire (6-5) scored twice in the opening period and its defense kept the Crimson off the scoreboard for the entire first half. In the second period the Crimson offense got underway, scoring three goals, including two in the last eight minutes, but still fell a strike short...
...Schenectady, authorities arrested 15 bookmakers, confiscated $436,000 in cash and uncovered evidence of a multimillion-dollar betting ring. The Schenectady bookies ran a full-scale operation complete with computers and multiple phone lines. In one eight-week period, police wiretaps turned up 5,800 calls to their "wire room" near downtown Schenectady from gamblers placing bets on college and professional basketball games...
...measure unconstitutional. Outside Toronto, Canada, the Durham school board reversed itself, eliminating the need for students to bring in permission slips before the "Harry Potter" books could be read in class. "I think they're silly books," the chairman of the school board, who argued against the restriction, told wire reporters. "But my wife likes them...