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...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
While no one's taking vows of poverty, working for love more than money is clearly hip with online employers. "I'm not sure the message has got out to the masses, but the gold rush is over," says Lesley Workman, CEO of Urbanite Networks in San Francisco. "If you hire someone who's in it for the money, you can be sure they're going to get calls from 700 headhunters a week. That's not the basis of a good relationship...
...make the introduction: Teresa Edwards is the most decorated Olympic basketball player ever--male or female--with three gold medals and one bronze to her credit in four trips to the Games. She has been training here on her own for this year's Summer Games, when at 36 she will become the senior member of the U.S. women's squad that is favored to bring home the gold again...
Teresa Edwards has been leaving her calling card since 1984, when she won her first gold medal in Los Angeles as the baby of the team and went on to become the Michael Jordan of women's international basketball. No other U.S. woman has represented her country on as many national teams (18), or scored as many points (1,760), or taken home so rich a trove of medals during her career (17, including 13 gold). Such records led Edwards' hometown of Cairo, Ga., to name a street in her honor--not far from the one that celebrates Jackie Robinson...
...picked up her ball and went home, while her Olympic teammates--including such stars as Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks and Chamique Holdsclaw of the Washington Mystics--run the WNBA hardwoods. Edwards will then rejoin them in August to prepare for a gold-medal defense in Sydney. That could prove more grueling than anything the men's Dream Team faces. The women's game is far more competitive at the top, and powerhouse women's teams like Russia and Cuba will make any American outfit earn its medal...