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...elect him realize their mistake. Sue Brown West Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Bush's political antenna isn't broken; it is tuned to the interests of Big Money. The transmission is on an encrypted frequency, and it directs the President much like a radio-controlled toy car. Peter Farr Olympia, Washington, U.S. Honoring a World Champion When I turned to your March 6 coverage of the Winter Olympics in Torino, the big story I found was about the doping controversy involving Austrian skiers - nothing about the positive aspects of the Olympics. What about the "clean" participants? What about the results...
...suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about Yee's loyalty, says a military official, "he wouldn't be free." At the same time, concerns about security at Gitmo were raised again last weekend when Army Colonel Jack Farr, a top official in the group conducting interrogations, was charged with mishandling classified material...
...others saw it. Now rugby - long pigeonholed as an élitist sport played and supported by the alumni of exclusive schools - looks set to claim conclusively a prize it only recently resolved to pursue: mass appeal. "The world's about to see how big rugby's become," says Nick Farr-Jones, captain of Australia's 1991 World Cup-winning Wallabies. "It's crossed boundaries. It's become an inclusive game." In no small way, the World Cup has fueled that transformation. First held in 1987, it's grown bigger at each installment. How much bigger? At the '87 Cup, France...
...evolved," says All Blacks skipper Thorne. "Teams are a little better at defending than they were four years ago, but they've got much better at finding ways through." So what does it take to win a Cup? "In a way, the planets have to line up," says Farr-Jones. Most importantly, he says, you need "the personnel." This means a combination of two types of players: those who do the small but crucial things that impress their teammates, and those capable of the flashy stuff that thrills crowds. "Beyond that," says Farr-Jones, "you need a happy team...
...Marco Farr, The Best Damn Sports Show Period