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...defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later, Norway won the crown in Sweden. But at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. beat China 2-1 to win the gold--although few viewers got to see that achievement, since NBC gave the game short shrift. ("NBC thinks the world is made up of divers," fumed Hank Steinbrecher, U.S. Soccer's secretary-general.) That won't happen again. All the Women's World Cup games are being televised on ABC, ESPN...
...B.I.G. and Puffy himself has tapered off, and the label's new releases have yet to pick up the slack. Albums by Faith Evans, Total and 112 were all expected to be strong hits, but so far only 112's Room 112 is approaching platinum. "By Puffy standards, a gold record is considered a flop," says an observer. And last month Mase announced that he is retiring from recording to join a ministry. All of which increases pressure on Combs to make his August solo album, Forever...
Even though Swiss banks finally coughed up $1.25 billion last August in an out-of-court settlement of Holocaust survivors? claims, the country?s image remains badly soiled by such disclosures, which also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations ?- and the stonewalling that came between facts and reparations ?- cost them the 2006 Winter Olympics, which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years...
Kennedy conspiracy theorists have a whole new set of reading materials to digest. Over the weekend at the G8 summit in Germany, Russian President Boris Yeltsin handed President Clinton what could be a new treasure trove of information (or perhaps just false gold): A declassified Russian dossier concerning the 1963 assassination of JFK. The documents are in Russian and apparently concern Lee Harvey Oswald?s travels to the Soviet Union as well as the Soviet government?s reaction to the killing. Kennedy enthusiasts hope the information will yield new insights about Oswald?s life in Minsk in the early 1960s...
...America's first celebrity couples in a media-crazy century. With his encouragement, she wrote memoirs of their life that made her one of the country's most popular and famous diarists. Early in the relationship, as Anne wrote ecstatically in 1928, when the couple were "together, alone--all gold, that extra golden bloom over everything!" But, as Lindbergh's biographer A. Scott Berg writes, "their 'storybook romance,' as the press always presented it, was, in fact, a complex case history of control and repression, filled with joy and passion and grief and rage...