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...Still, the compulsion to reap gold for national honor sometimes proved disastrous: in 1968, a Japanese marathoner who had won bronze in the Tokyo Games committed suicide after injuries looked set to prevent him from attending the Mexico City Olympics, where he had hoped to better his third-place finish for the sake of his country. Today's Japanese youth appear to feel less obligation to prove themselves on the global stage, aware perhaps that in this new touchy-feely era, it's permissible to focus not just on serving team and country but on their own emotional well-being...
...leave his bunker in the sect's sacred Imam Ali shrine "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled." The U.S. Marine colonel commanding American and Iraqi-government troops battling the stubborn gunmen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army proclaimed his men were ready "to finish this fight that the Muqtada militia started." Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister of Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government, declared there would be "no negotiation or truce" with the Shi'ite rebels. As the battle unfolded amid the dusty vastness of the city's Valley of Peace cemetery adjacent to the shrine...
...closer analysis of the election gives a very different message. First, Jeff did better than anybody expected. A week before the election, the Arch City Chronicle, one of the few papers that endorsed Jeff, predicted that Jeff would finish in fourth place, 7 points behind Carnahan. The Chronicle was probably more optimistic of Jeff’s chances than most media outlets...
Thanks to the training, Taylor posted a second-place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials—where she ran a personal best 53.36—and suddenly she was on the road to Greece. Sheena Johnson, who recently graduated from UCLA, came in first with 52.95, and South Carolina senior Lashinda Demus finished third...
...everything else is different,” Taylor said of the difference between the Olympics and the NCAAs. “And I’ll be cheering for my teammates because it’s better if the U.S. does well, but obviously I want to hit the finish line first...