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...After a while, I longed for a buddy to freeload with. That's when I saw Eric Moussambani, the athlete from Equatorial Guinea who swam in the first heat of the 100-m freestyle. After the other competitors were disqualified for jumping at the "on your mark" part, Moussambani had to swim alone. Moussambani had never even come close to swimming two pool lengths before. Halfway through the race, he started flailing and seemed in danger of drowning. But he prevailed, clocking in at 1:52.72. That's 1:04.08 longer than it took gold-medal winner Pieter...
...efforts to improve Princeton's financial aid system triggered a series of similar improvements at competitor schools, including Harvard...
Strength is paramount in Greco-Roman wrestling, which doesn't allow a competitor to take down an opponent by attacking his legs. That places a premium on lifts and throws. Such tactics are common in lighter weight classes, but Karelin--"King Kong" or "The Experiment" to fellow wrestlers--is the only super heavyweight with the strength to hoist a 290-lb. foe and fling him to the mat, in a maneuver the Russian calls a "reverse body lift." To execute it, Karelin locks his arms around the waist of an opponent, then lifts the wrestler like a sack of potatoes...
...formidable as Prescott was--6 ft. 4 in., movie-star handsome, a Wall Street legend and Connecticut Senator--it was Dorothy Walker Bush who pruned and staked the shrubbery. President Bush once described his mother, a championship-tennis player, as a "perfectionist, and a fierce competitor." She kept the Ping-Pong table in the entry hall of the Greenwich, Conn., house--the games were always front and center. Her rules? Never brag. Never quit. Never let 'em know you're hurting. Be honest. Be kind. Care about the other guy--help him. Don't look down on anyone. Compete hard...
...China, the Republicans maintain Clinton sent dangerously mixed signals, in part because of a misguided, possibly business-driven view of Beijing as a "strategic partner" rather than a competitor, and in part by skittishness fueled by domestic concerns. Thus when the embattled Chinese reformer Premier Zhu Rongji came to Washington to conclude a WTO deal in April 1999, Clinton backed off because of the domestic political fallout over nuclear espionage allegations. But sending Zhu home empty-handed not only weakened Beijing's reformers in their battle against hard-liners, it also fostered a climate of mistrust that erupted into open...