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Olympian Heights The ideals of the Olympic games are certainly worthwhile: sportsmanship, athletic prowess and opportunities for people from many nations and cultures to meet [Aug. 30]. What's wrong is the goal of constantly setting new world records, on which most athletic competitions, including the Games, are based. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

The ideals of the Olympic games are certainly worthwhile: sportsmanship, athletic prowess and opportunities for people from many nations and cultures to meet [Aug. 30]. What's wrong is the goal of constantly setting new world records, on which most athletic competitions, including the Games, are based. That world-record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 2004 | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

What sustains the reader's interest is Ong's rich use of language, which at its best reflects "the pell-mell, absurd, bountiful, magical nature of the Philippines," in Ong's generous phrase. Yet if this gifted writer is to realize his potential as a novelist-bard for the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strange Magic | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

The head of a nation is the capital; the head of a human body is its capital. When I read about the regeneration, development, changes and specialties of the cities in your stories, I discovered that the people who successfully transformed the unheralded places you described used their heads to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

It's no secret that the other players on the floor are not the ones Brown wanted. The original 2004 roster included such fundamentally gifted veterans as Jason Kidd, Kevin Garnett, Karl Malone, Ray Allen and Kobe Bryant, but each backed out, with excuses that varied in believability from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The World's Got Game | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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