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Panichgul (pronounced pan-itch-gal), a former fashion writer who designs under the name Thakoon, showed his first collection at the just concluded New York Fashion Week. He is one of four young Asian and Asian-American designers--including Jeffrey Chow, Derek Lam and Peter Som--who stole the spotlight under the tents in Manhattan's Bryant Park last week with quirky, quiet and sophisticated clothes...
...medal of any kind, and the loudest cheers went to those who made national history, however small or troubled their nation. Women sprinters from Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia and Bahrain--whose Rokia Al Ghasra ran in full hijab--were treated with special reverence by the crowds, as was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition. The victory was made all the more fascinating with the revelation that his first name means wave in Hebrew. Competition, empathy and entertaining minutiae--it should be the Olympic slogan...
...medal of any kind, and the loudest cheers went to those who made national history, however small or troubled their nation. Muslim women sprinters from Kuwait, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bahrain - some of whom ran in head scarves - were treated with special reverence by the crowds. So was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition, and whose victory seemed all the more appropriate given that his first name means wave in Hebrew. And when Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, finally hauled...
...Gal Fridman promised his girlfriend that if she came to Athens to watch him compete in the Olympic windsurfing regatta, she'd get to hear the Israeli anthem at the medals ceremony. Last week, he kept his promise?and fulfilled Israel's long-unfulfilled hopes of Olympic glory. Fridman sailed to victory in waters as blue as the Star of David on his country's flag, winning Israel's first-ever Olympic gold. "It is," he said, over and over, "a dream come true for the whole country...
...Maybe sport can heal some wounds. Shortly after his win, a fax arrived in Athens for Fridman, from the families of those who died in the Munich massacre. "Dearest Gal," it said, "we were moved to the depth of our souls that you remembered and dedicated our victory to our dear ones." To see the Israeli flag raised and to hear HaTikvah (The Hope), the national anthem, "closed a circle for us and was the realization of a dream...