In the icy wind a group of people stood wrapped up well on a pavement in south Belfast.

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Their best hope of a win is against Scotland, which they play in Edinburgh on May 24th, though they are already nervous about the gusts of icy wind.

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This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields.

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Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground.

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From the top looking down, we could see that the wind had blown all the snow off the face of the bowl, leaving it hard-packed, icy and very steep.

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