One of the unremarked-upon sidelights of the Asian bank and broker hardships is that Eurodollars have turned very expensive.

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This year's race didn't seem to offer any of the usual sidelights: neither unusual weather nor a surprising American contender nor even the question of trying to figure out whether the Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya, who won in 2010, was related to the Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya who had won four times before.

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