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...Johnson, who already holds the world marks at 200 and 400, is certainly eager to burnish his reputation as perhaps the greatest sprinter ever, but admits this is a very different Olympics for him. He is not the focus of attention, for one thing. "Doubling is a lot--a lot--of pressure," he says. "I was considering not running the 200 even if I qualified. I'm always put in a kind of showdown in the 200, and I'd gotten tired of that. I'm a lot more relaxed going to Sydney the way it is." Heading into Atlanta...
Johnson, who already holds the world marks at 200 and 400, is certainly eager to burnish his reputation as perhaps the greatest sprinter ever, but admits this is a very different Olympics for him. He is not the focus of attention, for one thing. "Doubling is a lot--a lot--of pressure," he says. "I was considering not running the 200 even if I qualified. I'm always put in a kind of showdown in the 200, and I'd gotten tired of that. I'm a lot more relaxed going to Sydney the way it is." Heading into Atlanta...
...Gates, that prospect blunts the criticism of those who say his generosity is meant to burnish his image amid the Justice Department's antitrust suit against his company. (Though the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was founded in 1997, a year before the suit was filed, he has accelerated his donating schedule in the 16 months of the trial.) "I have a high enough level of visibility that people will second-guess anything I do," Gates says, shrugging. He has come to see his life as something of a tripod: there are his wife and children, his company and "this...
...money coming in, but not too much reaching their pockets," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Michael Fathers. Rather than being paid on a scale comparable with soccer players' wages, say (let alone the sums earned in most U.S. professional sports), cricketers are encouraged to seek sponsors and burnish their income with product endorsements. That has led a growing number of players to take money from bookmakers for predicting the outcome of matches, and in some cases for throwing the game...
...George W. is his own man; the next day he's most emphatically his father's son. As the Republican nominee - famously stung last year by his failure during an interview to name the heads of state of three out of four foreign trouble spots - moves to burnish his foreign policy credentials, his father's legacy offers both assets and liabilities. Candidate Bush may have preferred a different last name Monday when he courted the pro-Israel vote in an address to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), in which he slammed the Clinton administration for daring...