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...What's more, while star Jamaican runners used to go abroad to train and study, most now opt to stay home, further endearing them to their countrymen. Bolt and Fraser, for example, eschewed lucrative U.S. college scholarship opportunities to attend the University of Technology in Kingston. Jamaican sports officials insist having the athletes on native soil has also led to a far lower incidence of the kind of doping scandals that have bedeviled Jamaican-born sprinters in the past. Bolt even made a point earlier this summer of letting it be known he'd sworn off partying to better prepare...
Perhaps it would be unreasonable to expect that, even as the Opening Ceremonies creep closer, the Olympians can think sports 24/7 in the Village. After swearing off extracurricular activity, Trupish, the Canadian boxer, and Kahlon, the field-hockey player, huddled with two countrymen and walked toward the square. "Maybe we can find that girl," one of them said...
...freed from Uday's depravity, the team flourished. At the Athens Olympics in 2004, they went all the way to the semi-finals, losing the bronze medal game by a single goal to the mighty Italians. They had been the Cinderella team of the Games, and like their proud countrymen, I celebrated the team's success. Three years later, as their country was being torn apart by a bloody sectarian war between Shi'ites and Sunnis, the team (comprising of players from both sects) won the Asia Cup, leading to incredible scenes of jubilation on Baghdad's streets. The ghost...
...realizes what SDI has become, perhaps he will use it for the best purpose it can serve: a goad to bring about the first genuine reversal in the nuclear arms race since it began 40 years ago. That would be a historic legacy of which Ronald Reagan--and his countrymen--could be proud...
...million to $70 million for 1986. Even so, many Haitians blame their economic problems on Finance Minister Leslie Delatour, 34, a former World Bank official. Because of his advocacy of a belt-tightening austerity program in a time of staggering unemployment, Delatour is ridiculed by some of his countrymen as a toutou, or puppy, of the Americans. After a fortnight of unrest, the country appeared to be settling down last week as a one-day national strike passed uneventfully. In a conciliatory speech a few days earlier, Namphy had promised his countrymen, ''Things are going to change.'' He added...