What has my response been to these interactions? I have ignored them. I have brushed them aside. Why? Because I needed Tim to be my coach. ... I am sure other women athletes feel the same way.

It's clear that there were some serious attempts by others to get this addressed months ago, and the response of the federation forced my hand when they claimed they did not have any first-hand information, and that while they admitted there were ongoing, recurrent problems, they did not feel they needed to take action. The timing is unfortunate. But they had every opportunity to deal with this years ago.

Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

tossed aside in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and in response to the mercurial rise in fuel prices. Drilling off the coast of Florida will not bring prices down at the pump, nor is it a cure-all for the disastrous federal response to Katrina.

We brushed the wall, and that shoved the fender in.

Then I felt something and (I) looked down and this shark brushed my kayak.