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...players, ranks as the favorite among the 16 competing nations. Yet defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later, Norway won the crown in Sweden. But at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. beat China 2-1 to win the gold--although few viewers got to see that achievement, since NBC gave the game short shrift. ("NBC thinks the world is made up of divers," fumed Hank Steinbrecher, U.S. Soccer's secretary-general.) That won't happen again...
FINED. COLUMBA BUSH, 45, wife of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; $4,100, by U.S. Customs officers; for failing to declare $19,000 in clothes and jewelry bought in Paris; in Atlanta. She paid with a check and apologized for "exercising bad judgment...
...Michael Johnson cops double gold in Atlanta, smashes 200-meter record...
Henry ("Hank") Aaron holds the major league career home-run record (755) and works for the Atlanta Braves organization...
...Ruth with the doffed cap at home plate, Lou Gehrig's voice echoing in the vast hollows of Yankee Stadium. Muhammad Ali's was not exactly a leave-taking, but it may have seemed so to the estimated 3 billion or so television viewers who saw him open the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Outfitted in a white gym suit that eerily made him seem to glisten against a dark night sky, he approached the unlit saucer with his flaming torch, his free arm trembling visibly from the effects of Parkinson...