We ran from the beach back to my house where my sister and her children were waiting for us.

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The Cup has traveled from the back of a duck boat in the streets of Boston to the greens of Pebble Beach, and from a sauna in Finland to a Slovakian castle.

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And back from a week long hiatus at the beach is Ken Rudin, NPR's political editor, podcaster, and author of the Political Junkie column, which you can read on NPR's Web site npr.org.

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By 21:00 we were back on the coast, safe in a hotel a stone's throw from the beach.

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Navy officers in white uniforms strolled along the sidewalk next to the beach, machine-gun carrying Federal Police officers peered down from the back of pick-up trucks, and municipal police patrol cars circled the oceanfront.

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He came back from the toilet, and Kinney was still interrogating the beach bum, the ex-marine.

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Hop the Tybee Island shuttle for a beach day on the laid-back barrier island, just 20 minutes from town.

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Mason will walk the 12-mile route from the beach in Shoebury to Chalkwell and back again on what would have been his father's 41st birthday in May.

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On Father Capodanno Boulevard in Staten Island's Midland Beach, frigid gusts blew in from the water, but those residents who have moved back in to their houses said the wind wasn't as bad as feared even at the height of the storm.

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