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...many Americans will not be familiar with the Commonwealth Games. How they could have missed out on the apparently premier sporting contest that pits, say, England’s international rugby sevens team against the mighty sides from Togo or the Cook Islands, is beyond...
...Commonwealth Games were an international irrelevance, yet they were viewed in Britain as a triumph. Never mind that England’s true national stadium in London remains an abandoned construction site as myriad committees blame each other for the project’s stagnation. The F.A. Cup, England’s main soccer competition, is forced to hold its final in a hastily converted rugby stadium—in Wales. (It is as if the Super Bowl always had to take place in the Skydome in Toronto.) But in a culture where mediocrity is expected?...
...Winners JIANG ZEMIN China's president finally gets invitation to Dubya's Crawford ranch in Texas. Bush will teach him how to lasso terrorists one-handed NATALIE DU TOIT One-legged swimmer makes finals in Commonwealth Games. For her next trick, she'll do it with one hand tied behind her back TOBY KEITH Singer tops U.S. charts with The Angry American album. International version, Arrogant Annoying Americans, is in the works Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Pop princess cuts short Mexico tour after giving press the finger and ending a concert early. Charm school is finally paying off NAOMI CAMPBELL Supermodel...
...Suisse First Boston. That is far above the 25% that planned to reduce benefits a year earlier. Among companies with 200 or more workers, the proportion offering retiree health benefits fell from 41% in 1999 to 34% last year, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and the Health Research and Educational Trust. That's the lowest figure in five years...
...leader of Manchester City Council, he runs a municipality that was once rich in 19th century commercial architecture - buildings with Victorian arches and polychrome brickwork - but became overrun with ugly concrete buildings in a misguided redevelopment effort in the 1960s and '70s. Now, just in time for the Commonwealth Games, Leese has shown that Manchester could overcome that legacy of drab functionality with the help of the best architects he could find - in Manchester, Britain and indeed the world. This summer, six years after an Irish Republican Army bomb devastated the city center, Leese's ideas have turned into stunning...