51.   For Clay, Joyce, McEwan and several other area athletes, it marks the beginning of a long summer during which they hope to make a big impression.

52.   Friday marked the beginning of ragweed season, the third of the major pollen seasons of the year.

53.   Friday marks the beginning of free agency and the Meggett derby.

54.   For some Afghans, the victory over the Soviets was a Pyrrhic one that marked the beginning of more bloodshed.

55.   Global markets have been volatile since summer, which marked the beginning of a rout in Asian stock, bond and currency markets.

56.   Her house is a two-room wooden cottage on a road only a few hundred yards from a fence that marks the beginning of the forbidden zone.

57.   His voyage on the SS Advance marked the beginning of a love that beckoned him to Panama, even in death.

58.   If ICANN bungles its response, the launch of this service could mark the beginning of the end of a unified cyberspace.

59.   In fact, many of those who went came away feeling that the war in Afghanistan marks the beginning of a long trial for American Muslims.

60.   Inside the shrine of Ali Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, worshippers prayed Sunday to mark the beginning of Eid al-Fitr.