Word: light
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...Then there was the thrilling, surprising choice of Cathy Freeman to light the flame. A champion, an Aboriginal, a standing Olympian, skinny little Cathy Freeman accepted the torch from a relay of six past Australian female medals-winners on the centennial of women competing in the Games. A lot of different circles were rounded off that night. Freeman stepped lightly into the water, and built a wall of flame around her. As the cauldron rose, the stadium was reverently quiet. Then Freeman walked out of the waterfall, and the crowd gave her this fervent, earnest, "Good on yer, Cathy...
...next morning, I saw the prime minister on TV. Howard's an arch-conservative and a monarchist, and you just know that it got right up his nose when Cathy was chosen to light the cauldron at Opening Ceremonies. But now he was saying, "Cathy Freeman is an Aborigine and an Australian and she's proud of that, and we're proud...
...Sandrine's Bistro stand sold 75 pounds of sauerkraut and more than 500 sausages. John Harvard's Brewhouse and Au Bon Pain also sponsored a Beer Garden in front of the Holyoke Center that served up Kolsch, a German light beer, and a special Oktoberfest brew...
...about 3% of the budget surplus over the next 10 years--$171 billion--to reducing America's reliance on oil and gas (and to clean up the environment). His program includes tax breaks to companies that use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, federal investments in light rail systems and high-speed trains, grants to small businesses to develop new energy-efficient technologies and tax breaks to families that purchase energy-saving cars, homes and appliances. Gore opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Then again, the same reporter also proclaimed Brown, which crept into the Top-25 this week, to be "a legitimate powerhouse". Such a description would certainly have been appropriate a decade ago when Brown won nine league championships in a row, but it seems a tad extreme in light of the Bears' woes in more recent years. Even with its win over Harvard on Saturday, Brown still only has two Ivy wins in the past three years...