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...example, Penny Heyns of South Africa, Samantha Riley of Australia and 14-year-old Amanda Beard of the U.S. all could win. Four-time Olympic champ Janet Evans may medal in both the 400 and 800, though she faces challenges from teammates Cristina Teuscher in the 400 and Brooke Bennett...
...WILLIAM BENNETT Advocate of Traditional Values...
...Bill Bennett can scarcely walk into an airport or restaurant these days without an admirer's stopping to scold him about his refusal to run for President. He sometimes responds, only half jokingly, that he would have to give up too much influence. As Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, Bennett spent eight years around the White House. "And I can't imagine," he says, "how being President could be more interesting than all the things I'm doing...
...distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage the cultural traditions that sustained civilization were absorbed by a generation of students and disciples. Some of them, including Irving Kristol and William Bennett, eventually became leading neoconservatives, the group that brought to American conservatism a measure of the intellectual legitimacy it had lacked for decades. Kristol's son William, the Weekly Standard editor and publisher and G.O.P. strategist, is another self-described Straussian...
Ever since she watched Janet Evans swim to three golds in 1988, American Brooke Bennett has wanted to compete in the Olympics. Last year at the summer nationals, she broke Evans' eight-year winning streak in the 800-m freestyle. In March she beat Evans in the 800 at the Olympic trials, setting up a head-to-head contest in Atlanta. And last week in Phoenix, Arizona, Bennett bested Evans again in the 800. Not bad for a 16-year-old asthma and allergy sufferer...