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...I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch in the Cabinet of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion and dropping out of his place of honor...
...Israeli-Palestinian relations looks depressingly like the last one, filled with smoke and flame and gunshots. The agreement Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn last September is supposed to change that. Next week Palestinians are to begin an experiment with self-government, and Israeli troops are scheduled to start withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area on the West Bank...
...word of disclaimer: As I'm close to broke after having bought too many, uh, spirits to celebrate this holiday season, I don't plan to actually buy anything from this guide myself. So don't send me e-mail to "flame" me if, say, your girlfriend jilts you because you bought her a mousemat instead of something more memorable from Victoria's Secret...
...every scene in the video that featured Michael playing around with little kids, but that never happened. Now it appears to be moving briskly. "We never doubted it would sell well," said a buyer at Tower Video in Los Angeles. "A lot of times, controversy just fuels the flame...
Still, most groups are fully open to anyone who wishes to voice their opinions--or to read some dirty and politically incorrect jokes. This open environment often results in what Usenetters refer to as flame wars. Some posts vehemently advocate extreme points of view to intentionally instigate a war of four-letter words...