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...Greeks' main challenge was to demonstrate that a small country can successfully play host to the Olympics. Somewhere in Athens there is a giant closet full of rubble; the Greeks not only finished all the venues and had 10 volunteers on every almost clean street but eventually met their stated goal of selling 3.4 million tickets...
...Shawn Crawford were almost as dominant as--although suspiciously a step slower than--those of their possibly drug-tainted predecessors. (It was their coach, Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he hoped to save the sport for clean athletes.) Even when Americans weren't supposed to win, they won, like Paul Hamm, the gold-medal gymnast who prospered by a judging error. Gifts from judges don't tend to win hyperpowers many friends...
...York is open to everybody. One of the things you always hear when people come to the city, whether they're from overseas or other parts of the United States, they walk away shaking their heads, saying, 'I never knew New Yorkers were so nice. The city is so clean. I felt very safe there.' It's a very different city than it was 20 years...
...shares tender memories of his grandmother cradling freshly gathered eggs in her apron. Patricia Albillar Diaz recounts Christmastime suppers of rice and beans served by welcoming, aproned neighbors. Writer Emily Prager recalls her grandmother's apron drawer and laments the demise of a "fabulous device that kept your clothes clean when there was no running water." These days, she notes, "the only aprons you see are barbecue aprons...
...home can a returning mother anticipate? KAUFMAN: It's important to understand that things may not be as perfect as they were before in terms of the household. The laundry may not be done when you want it to be done. The house is not going to be spotlessly clean. The sooner you adjust, the easier it will be, and it will make your away-from-home job easier...