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Flying Cascadilla Brothers
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Weight Controversy Erupts on Congress Avenue
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(Continued from page 1) Dwight's time was 5:05 and he finished in second place.
But then controversy ensued. The third place finisher accused Dwight of lying about his weight. He felt Dwight was well under the minimum 200 pounds and insisted that the officials weigh Dwight.
A scale was brought out and Dwight, surrounded by officials and spectators, was forced to come forward and prove he was, in fact, a true Clydesdale. Confident that the steak and ice cream he had eaten the previous night had helped maintain his body-mass, Dwight stepped forward to face the most stern of judgments. The scale bobbled between the 195-205 region before finally coming to rest on the number 201. But then someone from the crowd yelled that Dwight should be frisked to see if he was hiding any rocks in his pockets. When none were found the results were certified as official.
Never before has a Flying Cascadilla Brother had to endure such cold-hearted scrutiny by racing officials, and our lawyer will certainly
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be looking into the possibility of a lawsuit against the Congress Avenue Mile race director and whichever race sponsors have the deepest pockets.
The Congress Avenue mile was the third stop in Dwight's running comeback.
On May 15 he participated in "The Galbi Challenge." This is a yearly race between Dwight and his brothers, Doug (who works for the World Bank) and Duane (who some people mistake for Ted Kazinsky.) The race is run over 800 meters at an undisclosed track in Oregon.
As the gun for this race sounded the competition quickly thinned as it was discovered that Duane had over-slept and was still in bed. Dwight tucked behind Doug throughout the first lap, then made a decisive move with 300 meters to go. He won by 45 yards in a time estimated (roughly) to be 2:02.
Next came the Healthfest 5K on June 2. Because his vigorous bike training and family obligations took up so much of his time, Dwight had only run 17 times before this race, fol
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lowing a schedule of three to five miles every other day. Though not in the best of shape, and slowed by a vicious dog attack at the two mile mark, Dwight was still able to finish in 14th place out of 257 runners with a time of 19:18. This all bodes well for Dwight's summer of 1998 show-down with Bob Rarrick .
"We'll race in a series of three triathlon's over the course of the summer," Dwight told reporters. "One race will be in New York, one in Texas, and one somewhere in neutral territory. I tried to get Bob to agree to three duathlons, but he insisted on some event with a swim. I guess we'll be sticking to the half Ironman distance because I just found out that the swim distance in an Ironman is 2.4 miles and that's ugly. We might try the Escape from Alcatraz Tri. It looks fun."
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Beef! The other white meat!
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A scale was brought out and Dwight, surrounded by officials and spectators, was forced to prove he was a true Clydesdale.
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If You Care About Your Fellow Man you Won't by Nike
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(continued from Page 1) purchase both.
There are many other abuse problems in Nike factories, such as forced overtime, and supervisors beating workers. Nike's worker-relations philosophy is just one moral notch above slave labor.
Ironically, Nike has no problem paying Michael Jordan, the descendent of slaves, millions of dollars to promote its products. And he had
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no trouble taking it.
Recently, Andrew Young, who was one of the more incompetent members of the Carter Administration (and that's saying something) lead an inspection of Nike factories in Southeast Asia. He discovered that nothing was wrong and all the workers were happy. Of course, the factories knew of his inspection months in advance, he was only allowed to use Nike in
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terpreters, and the whole trip was paid for by Nike. And then Nike signed Mr. Young's consulting firm to an expensive, long-term contract. How dumb do they think we are?
So if you were ever treated badly at a job, remember it and don't buy Nike
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2 Return TO FCB HOMEPAGE
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