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...think he as a conductor increasingly felt uncomfortable with his handicap,” Wolff said. “But it didn’t discourage him from making great music...
...fewer than six lobbying-reform proposals were floating around Congress late last week, and leaders of both parties were promising that one, or perhaps elements of all, would pass before Groundhog Day. TIME surveyed the latest proposals and the lawmakers behind them to handicap the probable outcome...
...leaders are exactly the same group that jockeyed for the post after the first post-Saddam election: the incumbent, Ibrahim al-Jafaari; Iran's preferred candidate, Adil Abdul-Mahdi; current American favorite Iyad Allawi; and, the darkest of dark horses, one-time Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi. Asked to handicap the race last January, a leading Iraqi political scientist was reminded of a bumper sticker from an old U.S. Presidential campaign: ?Thank God,? said Wamid Nadhmi, ?that only one of them will become prime minister...
...viable market for a women's golf league? That question has been forever answered." With Sorenstam still dominant and Wie whacking her way up, TV ratings are soaring, galleries are record breaking and corporate sponsors are clamoring to get in. So what's left for Bivens--a 14 handicap at her best--to shoot for? Plenty, especially on the global front. "On just about any Sunday morning, the leaderboard looks like the U.N. roll call," she says. The LPGA Tour will probably add a stop in Thailand in 2006, and Bivens is talking about China next. Back home...
...them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn't run the fastest (record-holder Kingston Rule was three seconds quicker in 1990) or carry the heaviest handicap weight (the legendary Carbine carried 65.5-kg to win in 1890). But that hardly mattered to the whooping crowd, who reached toward the victor's gleaming flanks as she came past. "Have you ever seen a horse like her?" shouted jubilant young men in suits for hours afterwards, while other...