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TONY BLAIR Petrol predicament puts PM in bunker mode. Looks more Jimmy Carter than Winston Churchill...
Sprinter Maurice Greene, Moroccan middle-distance hero Hicham El Guerrouj, basketball star Vince Carter--there will be plenty of glamour names. But there are those we will remember whom we haven't yet heard of. Who knew of Kerri Strug before she nailed her landing on a severely sprained ankle in Atlanta in 1996? And the real heroes, well, we may never hear about them. For every Michael Johnson or Marion Jones, sponsored athletes who are as media savvy as they are athletically spectacular, there are literally a hundred athletes like Sirivanh Ketavong, Laos' best marathoner, who had to train...
...really, the ease of getting a gold medal does not a sport make. In fact, the ease the U.S.'s Dream Team will have winning the gold again has actually turned basketball into a nonsport. A sport, after all, has to include competition, and watching Vince Carter throwing it down against the Italians just isn't that gripping...
First off, let's not call them Backstreet Boys anymore. The youngest member of the group, Nick Carter, is 20 years old; the oldest, Kevin Richardson, turns 28 on Oct. 3. And he's married and has a goatee, for cryin' out loud. So from now on, let's call these guys Backstreet Twentysomethings. After all, teens grow up, and bands do too, or VH1's Where Are They Now? awaits. The Boys--er, the Twentysomethings--are currently holed up in a studio in their home base of Orlando, Fla., working on their as-yet-untitled new album, which...
...this isn't 1980, when stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis had America feeling embarrassed and ready for a fist-pounder like Ronald Reagan to replace Jimmy Carter. Since the arrival of the God-spouting Lieberman (and possibly since that nostalgic Clinton valedictory in L.A.) has seemingly taken "restore the honor and decency of the White House" off voters' urgent to-do list, Bush and Cheney have been looking for a crusade, a reason for voters to kick Al Gore out of Washington and change the locks...