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...special Website at time.com/olympic--bombing features the latest Atlanta explosion news and insights from TIME correspondents...
...This tragedy brings me back to the nightmare in Munich," says Ilana Romano, widow of an Israeli weight lifter who perished in the bloody dormitory. She came to Atlanta last week to ask the International Olympic Committee to set aside a moment of silence to honor the "Munich 11." Now the Olympic community has fresh losses to mourn. "The terrorists have succeeded," says Romano. "The Olympic Games are bloody again...
...would be easy to say all eyes were on Atlanta, but the film industry has problems that won't end with the closing ceremonies. "The movie business isn't bleeding to death, but it's bleeding," says Herbert Allen Jr., the entertainment industry's eminent investment banker. It wouldn't appear that way from the resounding success of such megahits as Independence Day and Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor...
...were other heroes, to be sure, in the first eight days of the 16-day competition, but none as compelling as the Seven Sisters of U.S. gymnastics (see page 42). In this ghost town on Saturday, one could only wish that they might magically reappear to make all of Atlanta--spectator, Olympian, official--braver. After all, in just a few hours last week, they had crystallized and reminded us of the intent of the Games...
Altius, America. After basking in the opening ceremony and the first parade of nations to include every nation (197 in '96), the Atlanta Journal-Constitution summed up the first day of competition with this banner headline: NO GOLD FOR US. The message was that there was something ignoble about the two silvers and the bronze that U.S. athletes won that day, and by extension the dross won by athletes from other nations. Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia certainly appreciated the bronze medal she won for the women's 10-m air rifle. Ivosev has a training problem, which would be laughably...