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TIME TRAVEL: History repeats itself in the crafty new novel Cloud Atlas...
...first time both genders have medaled in the event in a nonboycotted Olympics. And Paul Hamm became the first American man to take gold in the individual all-around. The Koreans protested the scoring; although their appeal was rejected, three judges were suspended, leaving Hamm's victory under a cloud. Behind the graceful façade, gymnastics is brutal...
...revolt played out on the front pages of the nation's newspapers last week, the German Language Council was organizing a contest to find the most beautiful German word. More than 20,000 entries flooded in, including such tongue twisters as Erdbeermund (strawberry mouth), meaning voluptuous lips, and Wolkenkuckucksheim (cloud-cuckoo-land). Another entry read: Liebe (love). But when it comes to grammar and spelling, perhaps the loveliest word of all is einfach: simple...
...ugly drug scandal is hunting down others. Superstar Marion Jones, 28, didn't qualify in the two events, the 100-m and the 200m dashes, in which she took gold in Sydney. She's merely a long jumper. So while suggestions of drug use--which she vehemently denies--cloud her legacy, America's success on the track is no longer riding on her shoulders. She's just another oldhead...
...most difficult decision?" He emits a slightly frustrated snort and slowly sets the gears in motion. To enlist in the Navy? No, Vietnam was just a distant cloud on his horizon when he did that. To oppose the war when he came home? No, he had seen too much. Two weeks after he left Vietnam, his close friend Don (Dinky) Droz was killed--Kerry still has a photo in his Senate office of the tangled mess of Droz's exploded swift boat--and Kerry felt compelled to speak out. "There have been so many tough decisions." He sighed, then conceded...