Word: dishonors
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...will take more than symbols to rekindle an Olympic spirit dampened in recent times by dishonor and disgrace. And after Atlanta, Sydney was anxious to produce a Games uncluttered by commercialism or catastrophe. If the opening ceremony is anything to go by, it might just succeed. As the helicopters, 47 TV cameras, 110,000 pairs of eyes in the stadium and billions around the world zeroed in on Homebush, it was clear that nothing had been left to chance. "Don't forget to look for your audience leader," the crowd was told before proceedings began, "to know when exactly...
Never mind that POTUS (Belt-speak for President of the United States) himself is not the one charged with doing the harassing - that dishonor goes to the top White House pastry chef, Roland Mesnier, who is alleged to have made unwanted sexual advances toward his assistant dessert-maker, Franette McCulloch, over an eight-year period...