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...Games followed the hosts' heroics in the pool with thrilling competitions in everything from the beach brand of volleyball to the Greco-Roman flavor of wrestling, then topped the whole thing with a spectacular track meet--a meet that featured a performance for the ages by Australia's Cathy Freeman, a young woman who ran with no less than a continent on her delicate shoulders...
...quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance. It represents the strongest putting of the question to Australia by an Aboriginal in years. It makes us ask: If it's okay for Cathy Freeman to be an Aboriginal because she wins, why is it not OK for someone else to be an Aboriginal when he says, 'This is my land,' or 'My children are dying too young' or 'My children are dying in jail.' Cathy, by having made a statement before the Games about...
...next morning, I saw the prime minister on TV. Howard's an arch-conservative and a monarchist, and you just know that it got right up his nose when Cathy was chosen to light the cauldron at Opening Ceremonies. But now he was saying, "Cathy Freeman is an Aborigine and an Australian and she's proud of that, and we're proud...
Forum Chair Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman chair in economics and the faculty co-chair of the Harvard Trade Union Program, said U.S. voter turnout is lower than any other democracy. Freeman said voter turnout decreased among eligible voters of all levels of education in the years between...
...Freeman predicted new technology, like a recently-launched website that allows users to take part in a mock presidential election, will affect turnout in the elections of the future...