Atwater saw Junior as a job-insurance policy and a hot line to the candidate, someone who could be counted on to help sway the Vice President to do what had to be done to win.

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All the servants, the gardeners, the chauffeurs, the junior ones who normally saw K.K. only from a distance, wanted to help carry the chair through the corridors of the house, where just a few lights burned, piercing the shadows.

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Twell is entering her first season in the senior ranks after a 2008 that saw her become world junior 1500m champion.

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