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...America's national pastime, partly because the Americans won't be there. The Canadian squad should be a serious contender at the eight-team tournament, along with powerful contingents from Chinese Taipei, Australia, Japan and Cuba, the perennial favorite. "I'll be disappointed if we don't win a gold medal," says manager Ernie Whitt, the former Blue Jays star. "If our players play their best, we should win it all." His high expectations stem mainly from Canada's success at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Panama last November. The Canadians finished with a 4-2 record overall and secured...
...spot Denise Rich, noted songwriter, socialite, philanthropist and ex-wife of Clinton pardonee Marc Rich. We chat for a few minutes; she’s wearing a solid gold coin around her neck that keeps distracting me. Next up is the jazz singer Anita Baker, who performs a soulful tune for the enthusiastic audience. I interview later about her musical childhood. Lastly I meet a few New York gossip columnists, and then generally stare in awe at the blinding light of superficiality and wealth. Honestly, these “charity” gatherings (this one is raising money to provide...
Initially, she somewhat bashfully wore her handiwork around Harvard Square, expecting to attract only embarrassing stares. Instead, she has gotten droves of national media recognition, tickets to the Democratic National Convention and an entrepreneurial gold mine...
...Lake Deborah to the west before, at the last minute, Lake Ballard's unique conical-shaped hill caught his eye. Chance intervened, too, with Baltimore-born prospector Leslie Robert Menzie. While surveying a potential mine site near Ninety Mile in 1894 - two years after Bayley and Ford struck gold in Coolgardie, 150 km to the south - he and his party ran out of water. "We followed the line of the reef to the top of the rise, nuggets and quartz lay everywhere," he reportedly said. "The place was literally saturated with the metal." But the town that briefly prospered...
...Menzies has asked itself that question countless times since gold ran out nearly a hundred years ago. While making the town's existential crisis stunningly clear, the sculptures also offer an answer. In a place where employment opportunities are, as Finlayson puts it, "zilch," Gormley's Inside Australia is a potential tourist goldmine. Shire plans are already underway for a $A175,000 development of the site, making the sculptures more secure, and improving visitor facilities. Meanwhile on a billboard in Perth, a Kalgoorlie promotion features one of the sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even...