LYCOS RETRIEVER
Mary Pierce: Years
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Even though Pierce's unexpected 6-3, 6-2, triumph (only her third in 11 starts against Davenport) lasted but 81 minutes, it must have seemed like a hundred years to the besieged Davenport. The staccato hand-clapping whenever the mob felt Pierce needed its help, as well as the cheering at the American's numerous mistakes, and the shouts of ''Allez, Mary!" may have rattled through Davenport's dreams last night.
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City authorities in Minsk have banned an annual Catholic procession marking the feast of Corpus Christi, a spokesman for Minsk's Cathedral of the Virgin Mary told the Belapan news agency, the BBC reported on July 12. First staged in the Belarusian capital in 1991, the ceremony had become a tradition for the city, gathering up to 5,000 participants each year.
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It isn’t that Pierce likes to live dangerously. It’s that she wants to live life to the fullest. One prime reason she had a double lung transplant 14 years ago this spring. (Even today, the average survival time after lung transplant is just five years.)
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