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...ancient Panhellenic Games, the two were as tightly bound as a winner's laurel wreath. At Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, "1,000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece" reminds us that where bull leaping and chariot racing have fallen from favor, art has endured...
...weakness: aerobic or strength limitations, lack of competitiveness, laziness, fragility. Something. But in Thorpe, Sutton can't find one, and neither can many others. "He marries grace with power," says Armstrong. "He caresses the water, but when it's time to be brutal, he's like a raging bull...
...perfect shot but about the perfect copy of the perfect shot 60 times, aiming for the maximum of 600 rings. The world record, set by Schumann in 1995, is 597, a figure that has been equaled--by him. Shooters are "mistake collectors," he explains. "Every hit besides the bull's eye is irretrievably lost...
...Stevenson was a graceful Baryshnikov in the ring, Savon is a raging bull. He KO'd U.S. heavyweight DaVarryl Williamson in the finals of the last Goodwill Games with a crushing right to the jaw a minute into the first round. "Savon has done that magnificently," says Stevenson. "But he's not a technical fighter." And he has begun to pay for it. He won the world title in 1997 only because his opponent, who outpointed him 14-4 in the final, was later disqualified. The same year, Savon was knocked out in a tournament at home. As a result...
...Gore by 8 points in a recent statewide poll. And polls show McCollum trailing his Democratic opponent, Florida insurance commissioner Bill Nelson, by 11 points in the Senate race. McCollum, 56, whose role as a prosecutor in President Clinton's impeachment trial sharpened his image as a partisan pit bull, is barnstorming Jacksonville homeless shelters and African-American churches in his Orlando district insisting that the more moderate conservative "is who I really am." Panic hasn't set in yet; but Nelson bets that "this is where the Republican jihad is going to be waged. The stakes are too high...