Word: fortnights
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...week of compelling track and field and a fortnight of exhilarating Olympic performances, Johnson's golden shoes left the biggest imprint. The Atlanta Games will and should be remembered for the bomb that killed Alice Hawthorne, 44, of Albany, Georgia, and they will and should serve as a manual on how not to transport people. But the sports themselves moved millions in Atlanta and at home. Track and field, in particular, was a treasure trove: a ninth gold medal for Carl Lewis in the long jump; redemption for Dan O'Brien in the decathlon; a world record...
Emil Zatopek, the great Czech distance runner, once said, "The Olympics are the one true time." The passage isn't measured in seconds or minutes or days or even the fortnight in which the Games are held. The one true time is the length of the dream, the years of training and striving for just the chance at a gold medal. So while we remember gold medalists like Zatopek, we shouldn't forget the men and women who pushed them to greatness. In the past year, photographer David Burnett has staked out various events for Olympic hopefuls in order...
...final fortnight, the dueling ads will push hard at emphasizing the different views of life in Israel. Labor's spots glow with the benefits of the peace process. Happy, smiling Israelis are shown cavorting amid prosperity; youngsters speed down a highway in a yellow convertible while the Golden Arches of the newly arrived McDonald's beckon. The images in the Likud ads stress the flaws in the current peace: a bus decimated by a suicide bomber, a burning car hit by a Hizballah Katyusha...
...case of Fidelity Investments, the nation's biggest fund group--comes from retirement plans like 401(k) savings funds set up by corporations to pool their workers' contributions. "With 401(k)s, regardless of what the market does, people are plowing in their money week after week, fortnight after fortnight, month after month," notes Robert Brusca, chief economist of Nikko Securities, a Wall Street firm. Once a worker designates a certain portion of his pay to be set aside and put into stocks, the 401(k) keeps investing the same amount unless the worker changes his contribution. And such investors...
...beautiful sounds of grunts, squeals and yelps filled Flushing Meadows this past fortnight, which meant only one thing: Monica Seles was back. At the U.S. Open, which was only her second tournament since returning from her 28-month physical and mental convalescence, the 21-year-old Seles was so impressive in her play and delightful in her presence that she instantly energized women's tennis. And together with Steffi Graf, she resumed one of the great rivalries in sports. Their final on Saturday, which Graf won 7-6 (8-6), 0-6, 6-3, went a long way toward erasing...