Word: capes
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...Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
...holiday during which they simply holidayed, folks on Martha's Vineyard eagerly swapped rumors that the President would be dining with Diana, barbecuing with Barbra, maybe even testing his Nikes on the links with Mike. But the first week of the Clintons' three-week vacation on the island off Cape Cod was relatively low on celebrity schmoozing and high on sedentary pleasures. "The President and the First Lady had several intense exchanges of words," deputy White House spokesman Barry Toiv told reporters at a typical press briefing on the Commander in Chief's daily maneuvers. "Some of them earned triple...
Like beauty pageant contestants, the would-be hosts of the 2004 Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
...centennial Olympiad, Athens is once again the top contender ? closely followed by its centuries-old rival, Rome. But the announcement last week that South African President Nelson Mandela would personally attend the announcement might provide a hot outsider tip: Either Mandela is risking an humiliating photo op when Cape Town loses ? or he knows something the smart money doesn...
Chasteney is survived by his sister, Eleanor C. Broidrick of Cape Cod, and several nieces and nephews...