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...watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement. I had been had.The scene above played out in a market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor “malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”). After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire...
...didn't respect what the Olympics meant. Plus, he got a fair amount of criticism for making that guarantee. Now, give him credit. Sure, the United States was pumped for these Olympics since the summer of '06, the year new U.S.A. basketball chief Jerry Colangelo and his choice as coach, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, gathered the core players of this team to start training for Beijing. They didn't need LeBronic hubris to help them. After they beat the world's top international teams by an average of 27.9 points per game in these Olympics, the U.S. probably would have...
...East and Midwest," says Steve Schneck, a political science professor at Catholic University in Washington. It also doesn't hurt that Biden's not afraid of the role of bare-knuckled boxer. Biden often told audiences, as he did again in Springfield, that his father used to coach him that life was not about how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times you get up again...
...After the final block, McCutcheon shook hands with Russia's coach, Vladimir Alekno, then stood alone while his players celebrated. "This team represents what's good about team sports," he said, when asked what American fans who have not followed his team's run might be missing. "The sum of our parts are much greater than the individual aspects. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. There's a lot of unity and strength to this group. I don't know if that's of any interest to Americans, but that's what they're missing...
...game's real storyline, though, centered around U.S. head coach Hugh McCutcheon, whose family suffered the first and only tragedy of these Games. The day after the Opening Ceremonies, the father of McCutcheon's wife Elisabeth was stabbed to death and her mother critically injured by a deranged and suicidal Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach...