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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...move injected an immediate and welcome dollop of drama to the Salt Lake City scene. Indeed, a gang of Romanians in disguise sneaked off with a gold even before the official start of competition, stealing the watches of six timekeepers on the bus taking them to the first cheating event--in a record 32 sec. That event, the men's equipment-tampering relay, was won by North Korea's team in a dramatic upset over highly favored Iraq. The North Koreans had broken into the wrong locker room, lost their tools and failed to sabotage the blade of a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faster, Higher, Sleazier | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...late 60s - particularly with Steve McQueen in the John Frankenheimer film, "Le Mans." Ford introduced this new GT40 as a concept car at the Detroit auto show in January. It drew rave reviews and a cascade of calls and emails from interested buyers, including a gang of small businessmen from the East Coast who flew their jet out for a private viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Cool Cars for the Rest of Us | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...version of the Ford Le Mans race car that won big in the late '60s. Ford introduced this new GT40 as a concept car at the Detroit auto show in January and it drew rave reviews and a cascade of calls and emails from interested buyers, including the gang of small businessmen from the east coast who flew their jet out for a private viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...Muslim rebel Gang Abu Sayyaf is the right target for the U.S. military at the right time [WORLD, Jan. 28]. We allowed such renegade Muslim bands to grow into dangerous terror networks by ignoring them, and the Sept. 11 attacks followed. We should start with the small groups and work up to Saddam Hussein. H.H. CLEVELAND Temple, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 2002 | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...whom had fled here from Albanian-dominated areas elsewhere in Kosovo. The last time Lindita tried to visit was nearly a year ago. Riding in a police car under the protection of French troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, she and her family were attacked by a gang of men who lobbed a tear-gas canister through the front window. "I froze," Lindita says of the incident. "I couldn't even move my legs. Now, we don't even try anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy of Hate | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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