After lunch, it was a dash back to Kuala Lumpur for talks in the afternoon with Razali Ismail, the Malaysian who is president of the U.N.

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Aparna Dash later caught a flight back to New Delhi, where she had been working, according to her husband.

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In more modern times, the Fastnet Race, a 615-mile dash from England to Ireland and back, brings some of the world's fastest sailing vessels hurtling around the rock each year.

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The fact that it was a strike from Tevez - plus a penalty from Wigan's Sheffield United old boy David Unsworth - which sent the Blades back into the Championship after only one season in the top flight only added a dash of irony to the last-day drama.

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It tapped directly into long summer rides to Jones Beach with the dash-mounted eight-track blasting, to boom boxes in the Rockaways and Beach Haven, and turntables in back bedrooms of ethnic neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and the burbs.

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