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...Olympic committees coming into being that wanted to send athletes to the Games," says James Macleod, the I.O.C. project manager who oversees the scholarships. But many of the countries didn't have the sports infrastructure or financial resources to develop and field teams for the Games, much less contend for medals. "The Olympic Games wouldn't be the Olympic Games with just the big countries," says Macleod. "We're trying to give the smaller ones the means and the methods to send athletes to compete in the Games with dignity...
...origin legislation, after years of debate, got a boost from terrorism. "With 9/11, COOL took on a life of its own as a food-safety issue," says Barry Scher, vice president of Ahold, the supermarket conglomerate. "It got hard for Congress to look the other way." But retailers contend the law would do nothing to control contamination or pesticides, much less bioterrorism. And, they say, it would cause chaos in the grocery aisles. Should stores be fined $10,000 if a clerk tosses bananas from Costa Rica under a shelf tag reading ECUADOR? Should the same ocean-caught fish...
...outcome of the vote and the stability of the country in question. Howmaira Zamir, in charge of registration at Eid Mosque, puts the task ahead in stark terms: "This is a battle for the future. And we must fight." For Karzai, the fight is against regional warlords. Optimists contend that political competition has replaced the way of the gun. "[It's] democracy in action," gushes one Western diplomat. But outside Kabul, the Taliban is still deadly and powerful. Twelve election workers have been killed to date, including two murdered by gunmen in Taliban-laden Uruzgan province late last week. Meanwhile...
...addition to the threat of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union falling into the wrong hands, the United States must also contend with the distinct possibility of nuclear neophyte Pakistan falling to Islamic fundamentalists. In Pakistan, according to Allison, four in five prefer the foreign policy strategy employed by Osama bin Laden to that of President Bush...
...good time) will eventually be bridged. We will finally learn that while no news may be good news, the converse is certainly not true. And even though it may be that only after society itself undergoes a revamping of values will our trustworthy politicians follow suit, I still contend that it’s not too naive to hope for a leader with enough vision to take initiative in what he believes is right—even if the cameras aren’t clicking away, and even if his good deed doesn’t automatically translate into...