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...remaining four members and two alternates were chosen after a two-day camp at the Karolyis' in July. Picking the right squad is more important this year because of new rules in the team event. Teams no longer have the luxury of dropping their lowest score on each apparatus. "There is absolutely no place for error," says Martha. "It's a harsh rule and demands 100% consistency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gymnastics: Inside Camp Karolyi | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

PAUL HAMM AGE 21 HOMETOWN Waukesha, Wis. EVENT Gymnastics THE DRAMA Hamm won the world all-around title in 2003, the first U.S. man to do so. His strength is the high bar--he's the only gymnast who will do three release moves in a row off that apparatus in Athens. THE COMPETITION The big challenge now comes from Asia, not Eastern Europe. China is intent on retaining its Olympic team title, and in the race for all-around champ, Hamm will have to repeat his historic feat and outscore Yang Wei of China and Hiroyuki Tomita of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympians | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...with a grim solemnity that reflected the panel's decision to apportion blame across dozens of agencies spanning two presidencies. Meticulous in its reconstruction of the attacks and unflinching in its conclusions about why the government failed to stop them, the report singles out the U.S.'s sprawling intelligence apparatus for an overhaul, hammering the nation's spooks for their inability to piece together Osama bin Laden's plot--and raising new doubts about whether they are better positioned to detect the next one. Timed for release just before the start of the election season, the report landed amid galloping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting the Next 9/11 | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

None of those measures will matter, though, if Iraq cannot put enough of its own boots on the ground. After Bremer disbanded Saddam's 400,000-man army in May 2003, he drew up plans for a different kind of security apparatus--a slenderized 35,000-man military, a 40,000-strong Civil Defense Corps (CDC) and 90,000 police. Opting for quantity over quality, the CDC and especially the police took in droves of recruits who remain undertrained, ill equipped and unreliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: After The Hand-Off: Taking Back The Streets | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...Evenimentul Zilei who attributes the success to "titanic work, military discipline and special diet." He adds, "But it allows you to do miracles almost overnight." Training conditions have improved greatly since Comaneci's time. When Comaneci, who now runs a gymnastics academy in Norman, Oklahoma, trained in Deva, the apparatus was antiquated, the gymnasium was stifling, and there was little money to be made from the sport. Today athletes get luxury treatment by comparison, she says. "It's more like Ritz-Carlton today." They sleep in air-conditioned rooms, have bathrooms with Jacuzzis, and train on the latest equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is She the Next Nadia? | 6/27/2004 | See Source »

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