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Even so, getting to the podium won't be a slap shot for Hughes. Cohen, a gifted performer, is as much a master of the mental game as she is of the triple Lutz. At last month's nationals she clipped Kwan twice during the warm-up before their final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three U.S. Stars. One Gold Medal. Get Ready For Spin City | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

But then Ivica knows what fortitude is needed to come back from severe injury. He needed three operations on his right knee and one on his left to repair damage from a 1998 accident. By his gifted sister's standards Ivica was a slow starter, waiting until he was an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two For The Snow | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

France's new approach to training and development began in the mid-1970s, when the French Football Federation (FFF), established the Institut National du Football, or INF, which assembled the nation's top recruits aged 16 and over for specialized training from élite coaches. The FFF also required all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Foreign Legion | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

When Al Hirschfeld arrived with his family in New York City in 1915 at the age of 12, the Empire State Building had yet to be built. But his parents, who had run a candy store in St. Louis, Mo., hoped that the city would provide opportunities for their gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caricature Builder | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

A bully. Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size. He had a kind of a wild tendency toward violence. I don't know why, because he was a very gifted writer. Who knows what prompts people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caricature Builder | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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