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...time of the assault, the student was wearing an Islamic prayer cap...
...ahead at the final turn, but Thorpe kept his head cool and his stroke smooth to bring home the race in a new world-record time of 3:13.67. "The last 50 m were rather painful," said Hall. "This is the Olympics, all or nothing. I doff my swimming cap to the great Ian Thorpe. He had a better finish than I had." While Hall was hurting, Thorpe's mind was a blur. "When I touched the wall I had this feeling we had won," he said later. "I didn't look up or anything." The Australians celebrated with some...
...from developing countries, Edwin arranged to bring Williams to the U.S. for her first taste of high-quality training. He also persuaded Nike to sponsor her. As a result, Williams in Sydney is a model of athletic chic. But even in garish red spikes and a cutting-edge floppy cap, she is still, one senses, a fashion innocent...
...Medicare's hospice benefit. Senator Charles Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Special Committee on Aging, wants to clarify Medicare's requirement of a six-month life expectancy as a guideline, not a hard rule. (Reformers hope Congress will formally declare it an average instead of a cap.) Senators Susan Collins, a Republican, and Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, also plan to introduce a more general end-of-life health-insurance plan...
...always been buoyed by the presence of supportive friends and family. When he felt well enough, he'd go duck hunting and fishing but never far from home in Downers Grove, Ill. Though he rarely travels more than a few miles from there, Bruce has amassed a baseball-cap collection featuring the insignias of 35 states. "I'll have every state west of the Mississippi after I get Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon. And I have friends going to those places to get them...