The Boston Marathon may be an elite race in which participants are asked to qualify but what makes it memorable are the little things that make any race special: the visible personal battles, played out on public stage, from Hopkinton to Boston.
As with other special elections, the race didn't have a state or national slate to draw voters to the polls.
"For them to be switching off football games and all the other sports to watch my race is something special, " he said.
Because this spring's race is a special election to fill the seat Ms. Narassiguin was forced to vacate, the candidates have less than four months to campaign.
The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
Tuesday's special election is the last congressional race before the November elections, and that's why it's important, Kinski said.
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That race is actually a special election for the remaining four years of the term of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash days before the election two years ago, and under Missouri law the winner will assume the post immediately after the election.
This has been a wonderful design process for the last decade because with each year we have to reconsider ELL needs, Special Education needs, and even shifting race, class, and gender demographics in order to fit the most appropriate and challenging program for our students.
It is quite a collection: Subsidies for both oil and gas and alternative fuels, enhanced charitable contributions for computers, the infamous NASCAR race track give-away, and special tax breaks for movie and TV producers, mining companies, railroads, rum, and investment companies to name only a few.
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Given the truly special treatment that some economic actors get in various circumstances, a kind of legislative arms race ensues as different players seek to gain advantage in the game.
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It is a very special moment first time you get the pole position or reach the podium in a hard fought race.
He had to wear a special back, neck and head brace for three months but had believed that he would return to race-riding.
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