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...That's right. For reasons that are, once again, entirely unclear to me, I managed to pick not eight, not nine, but 10 of last week's games correctly. I have been encouraged to gloat, but am going to refrain until this string of glorious good luck has established itself into something resembling a pattern. On a more serious note, how 'bout them Brownies? Hope they enjoyed that win, because this week the Steelers are going to burst their bubble like a schoolyard bully...
Sure, it's easy to forget what is glorious about the Games, especially in non-O years. There are times when the five linked rings--supposed to represent the harmonious union of continents--seem to symbolize instead the tawdry connections between sport and so many of society's baser attributes. We read all the time about the scandals. Doping. Tainted records. Bribery. Boycotts. And in Olympics immemorial, racism and sexism. We begin to wonder why we ever made such a big deal of the Olympics...
...lead story. To watch her compete in Brussels, Sullivan says, was "to see a stadium full of track-crazed fans screaming for their hero, and to get a feeling for what she's trying to accomplish on a worldwide stage." With reporter Sora Song, he also covers something less glorious: the persistence of performance-enhancing drug use among athletes. The TIME team in Sydney will include our (conveniently) Australian-born senior editor Belinda Luscombe, correspondent Sally B. Donnelly, staff writer Joel Stein and assistant picture editor Jessica Taraski. Associate art director D.W. Pine will convert their work into sumptuous layouts...
...Kong is the cinema that put the artistry in martial arts. Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan turned the spectacle of kung-fu fighting into high-flying ballet. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which makes its U.S. debut at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 9, Ang Lee pays glorious tribute to both Chinese action films and Western-style love stories. The Taiwanese-born director of Sense and Sensibility offers a mature crowd pleaser, with brisk pacing and a lingering melancholy...
...alas, you don't get this glorious form without a few blood sacrifices at the altar of function. Take the on-off switch. There's no button, just a purple-glowing touch-sensitive circle. Very year 2000. And very irritating if you happen to brush your hand over it, as I did on more than one occasion, only to discover I had turned the machine off. This is why touch-sensitive keyboards never went mainstream. We humans prefer the certainty of pressing buttons...