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...moment too soon. The Games begin in less than 690 days - as digital countdown signs at major construction sites helpfully remind the workers - and despite remarkable progress in recent months, serious doubts remain about whether all the projects will be completed on time. In April 2000, Juan Antonio Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), warned that the Games were endangered by delays in construction and planning. Heads rolled in Athens. Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who had led the bid to secure the Games for the city, was brought back in May 2000 to head ATHOC, the Athens Organizing...
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...disagreement stems from a policy change instituted at NACAC’s sparsely attended convention in San Antonio one week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when members voted to allow students applying under binding Early Decision programs at one college to file as many nonbinding Early Action applications as they wished. Although students would still be required to enroll at their Early Decision school if accepted, they could attend an Early Action school that admitted them if they did not get into their Early Decision college...
...schools said their students received marks well below those of their overall work. FRANCE Bonnie and Clyde French police arrested a man and a woman alleged to be military leaders of ETA, the Basque separatist group, in a raid that Spain called a blow "against terrorism." Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, 35, and Ainhoa Múgica Goñi, 32, were seized at a supermarket in the suburbs of Bordeaux after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their car. Múgica and Olarra are accused of numerous attacks and killings...
...American-bred Bowman to first place in the endurance championship at the World Equestrian Games. Horse and rider overcame 160 km of difficult country - made so treacherous by torrential rain that dozens of horses pulled up and two died of exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi and Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send extremely slight boats skittering over the surface of the Guadalquivir River. In the final of the men's coxless pair, the British team of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell avenged...