Recently, a prisoner I was with in Attica arrived in Sing Sing, and told me the worst of the old guard had left, the setups and beatdowns were over, and COs now use pepper spray instead of batons.
Each day, six of each team's 25 runners take turns to cover distances of around 15km each, passing a ribbon (tasuki) to each other instead of a baton.
Only this time, instead of police batons being used to club people over the head, private security forces sprayed mace into people's eyes.
The top four players — Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Murray — are like a relay, but instead of passing the baton they are taking turns raising the bar.
Now some politicians, instead of taking the baton from Mr Mandela to continue the race, are just sitting under trees enjoying the fruits of his misery.
Then, instead of being in batons or cubes like the Macedoine, cut the vegetables into thin slices.
Instead the baton of outrageousness appears to have passed to the cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry, whose vases depict the dark underbelly of suburban Essex life.
Different Strokes For a Musician The violinist ITZHAK PERLMAN has a new job, wielding a baton instead of a bow.
But who could have predicted that, instead of passing him the baton, Mr. Leno would beat him about the face and neck with it?
A carillonneur sits at a carved oak clavier, an organlike cabinet with shafts of wood, called batons, instead of keys.
