The champions range in age from 300 to 3,500 years old.
A writer who pounded out dozens of novels and scores of stories in California between the 1950's and his death in 1982, Dick has his share of champions, ranging from rock musicians to French postmodernists.
The antagonism between the "conservative" Brahms and the "radical" Wagner was overstated even in their own time, and the reductive labels have only grown more implausible as their terms were reversed and their legacies taken up -- or violently appropriated -- by 20th-century champions ranging from Schoenberg to Hitler.
Schubert, an eight-time Olympic coach who oversaw the development of world-record holders and Olympic champions ranging from the distance freestyler Brian Goodell in the 1970s to the breaststroker Rebecca Soni in 2008, guided the United States team to 47 medals, including 25 gold, at the Pan Pacific Championships in August.
And as happens too seldom, the wide spectrum of support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund was actually reflected in Congress, with staunch champions ranging from Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C). to Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz).
According to the consumer champion, a range of illegal trading practices, such as claiming goods are "absolutely free" and then charging high postage fees, or displaying bogus signs claiming "offer ends Monday", were still being carried out at an annual cost to consumers of around £3.3bn.
Cotto's hope was that the accumulation of hefty punches would either slow or discourage his mercurial opponent, but there was little evidence of that in round seven as Mayweather, perhaps the most dedicated trainer in boxing, drew on his vast reserves of fitness to pepper the champion from range, then move clear.
TNT has championed a range of hugely successful specials, from "Monte Walsh," a "Lonesome Dove -ish Western starring Tom Selleck, to "Dove -ishoor," a Western H. Macy movie that wastarringd by HBO and won six Emmy awards in 2003.
The all-important missing element was technique: "digital mastery," as he later put it, for which ability he championed a range of contemporary artists from Pavel Tchelitchev to Paul Cadmus.
About 75 to 80percentt of the company's rose production now is devoted to a velvety red hybrid tea called "Royalty". It is the company's long-stemmed champion and ranges in length from 22 inches to 30 inches.
