21.   Did I want a card with a Braves logo, an Olympic torch, NASCAR ... ?

22.   Earlier in the week, the same sentiments were being voiced in Dayton and Orange, towns in Texas graced by the Olympic torch.

23.   Even for a literary hitchhiker, the image of the Olympic torch is a kind of Rorschach test for those who hold it and those who merely watch.

24.   Even Gosper had been widely criticized earlier this year for securing for his daughter a preferred place in the Olympic torch relay.

25.   Hands locked, tears staining their faces, the two strangers returned to the bombing site, this time bearing the Olympic torch and roses to lead the memorial.

26.   He ended up running the Olympic torch and driving a car in an Olympic parade.

27.   He asked her to carry the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony.

28.   He held the ball up as if it were the Olympic torch.

29.   He dispatched his wife and daughter to Greece for the lighting of the Olympic torch in April.

30.   He lives with his mother outside Portland, Ore., and ran with the Olympic torch when it passed through the state.