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...residents of her African island nation to devote her life to tossing ribbons, hoops, clubs and rubber balls. It's hard for many Olympic fans to get overly excited about rhythmic gymnastics, a so-called sport that involves sequin-attired women contorting their bodies as if in a Cirque du Soleil performance. But Monteiro took her Olympic responsibility seriously, often training in a dilapidated gym with ceilings too low to accommodate a proper hoop or ball toss. In last week's preliminaries, she finished last, but Monteiro didn't seem overly distressed. "It was a very nice experience," she said...
...were on their way to topple Nguema's government, and had touched down to collect weapons and ammo. Nineteen other men, including South Africans and Armenians, were arrested in Equatorial Guinea on suspicion of being part of the plot. The self-confessed leader of the Guinean cell, Nick du Toit, on trial in the capital, Malabo, testified last week that he met Thatcher last year, and that Mann and Thatcher had discussed the sale of helicopters for mining operations in Sudan. Mann may be the most direct link between Thatcher and the coup plot. In the early 1990s, the Eton...
Even before some of the late partygoers arrived home Saturday morning, athletes were taking the field. The Games' first gold was awarded to China's Du Li in the women's 10-m air-rifle competition. The People's Republic followed up Du's feat with another shooting gold, along with a pair of conquests in the men's synchronized platform and women's synchronized springboard diving events...
Part poet, part pol, Peggy Noonan was the Republican Party's go-to speechwriter for nearly a decade. Ronald Reagan turned to her to mark the 40th anniversary of D-day--"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc"--and it was Noonan who helped the first George Bush find his voice in 1988. Her notion of a "kinder, gentler America" was picked up by Bush to soften the G.O.P.'s image after eight years of Reagan conservatism. Noonan then quit politics and went on to fame as a pundit and author...
...Experts caution that the Clef du Vin will not magically transform a harsh vin de table into a grand vintage. (You can ruin a good wine by leaving the instrument in the drink too long.) What it can do is help determine which vintages are worth waiting for, and for how long. Wine goes through stages of oxidization, from fermentation and bottling to total oxidization, when it becomes too old to consume. In between, it reaches periods of equilibrium when it is perfect for uncorking. The Clef du Vin helps predict when those periods will fall-and with 95% accuracy...