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When the flame is lighted in Athens this August, the Olympic Games will have returned to their rightful home - correct? Tell it to the townsfolk of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, where they've been hosting their own version of the Games off and on since 1612. Indeed, if Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world...
...Seldom have I found an essay to be more off the mark. Sullivan's only correct statement is that Bush faces re-election problems. Although Churchill was indeed a great leader, Sullivan's claim that "he was the difference between victory and defeat" carries things way too far. It was the British navy and air force that kept the Nazis from invading Britain. But final victory required having Russia and the U.S. on Britain's side. So whether the British Prime Minister had been Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill or Clement Attlee, there would not have been a British defeat...
Face it, you love the Whitney Biennial. You love a show that gives you, every two years, an opportunity to bemoan the state of art today, all those craven dealers, politically correct curators and jejune, salacious, hectoring artists. Well, good news: the 2004 edition of the Biennial is now open. With 108 mostly lesser-known contributors from around the U.S., it is sure to have something to make your skin crawl. But there are also those rare things, artists worth looking at. Here are three...
...last thing on Tilly's mind when he and his colleagues began their research. They were interested in prolonging fertility, but as experts in cell death, or apoptosis, they were looking for ways to keep the limited supply of eggs limping along longer. "We assumed the dogma was correct," he says. Indeed, they found that the egg cells in adult-mouse ovaries are constantly dying off--but at a remarkable rate of up to 1,200 a day, or about a third of the total. "By the existing dogma," says Tilly, "they shouldn't last more than a few weeks...
...moderation," says NHL executive vice president Bill Daly. "But there hasn't been this huge hue and cry to get it out of the game because it's so barbarian. We have bigger problems." That demonstrates deafness to this week's hue and cry, but Daly is correct in one regard. The NHL is in the worst shape of its history, having suffered from overexpansion in the past decade. The game itself has been dulled by a suffocating defensive style of play. Fights and hard hits are all the sport has to promote itself with...