Word: final
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...Russians took it hard. This, succinctly, from the tight-lipped Arkaev: "We were expecting gold." But now he didn't have it - in the team competition, at least - and so he reset his sights on the individual all-around finals. Alexei Nemov, 24, the anchor of the Russian team, was the most decorated gymnast in Atlanta when he took home six medals. But he did not get the title of best male gymnast that year - it went China's Li Xiaoshuang. Like Khorkina, the glamorous Nemov was here for his final Olympics, but he almost didn't make...
...Bulldogs (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) had one last shot at glory when junior quarterback Peter Lee (20-of-35, 325 yards) completed three consecutive passes in the final minute and hit Keith Reams at the Cornell 14 with two seconds left to set up a possible game-winning field goal. However, Mike Murawczyk's 32-yard attempt went wide left, and the Big Red ended up pulling off another surprising upset...
Columbia suffered from a role reversal Saturday when Bucknell came up with a shocking 12-10 victory last weekend. After coming back from a halftime deficit last week against Fordham, the Lions (1-1, 0-0 Ivy) had a 10-6 lead heading into the final minute, but Bucknell's Lucas Phillps hit Jim Horan for an 8-yard TD with just 24 seconds left in the fourth quarter...
...voice often cracked by remembered pain. Once selected for the Kindertransports, these kids had just days to pack their bags and say what some of them knew was their final farewells to their parents. The latter tried desperately to cram a lifetime's moral instruction, not to mention unsunderable love, into those hasty moments. One of the film's most heartbreaking stories is of a father who, running alongside a departing train, could not bear the separation. He yanked his daughter through an open window--and ultimately into a concentration camp. She survived...
...that developments that at first glance might seem bad are actually good. Specifically, the slowdown in growth from manic annual rates of 6% for the most recent 12 months--the last half of 1999 and the first half of this year--and an unbelievable 8.3% in last year's final quarter...