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...came to town. Over months, it had wound its way from Australia's most ancient icon, that sandstone monolith known as Uluru - it used to be called Ayers Rock - to its most modern, the Opera House here in Sydney. On the afternoon it was going to arrive at the harbor, I was walking around at Circular Quay. Two Aboriginal homeless people had already taken up positions on a bench. They were sitting in the shadow of this immense ocean liner out of Nassau called the Crystal Harmony, a big boat full of titans with tickets, all of it paid...
...Heavy winds made sailing practice on the harbor impossible; Olympic buses went off course or crashed into one another; doping news played on and on. No previous Olympics had seen such a rash of 11th-hour banishments and "withdrawals"; China trimmed its roster by no fewer than 27 athletes who might have proved an embarrassment by testing positive in Sydney. Every Olympic press conference I went to opened with a drug question or six, and finally Aussie swim coach Don Talbot had had his fill. "I don't know if it's cast a cloud over these Games," he barked...
...right. Sydney was buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all that week. The "Today Show" and other countries' Today Shows set up by the Opera House to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Overhead, Qantas jets all in a row descended toward the airport at Botany Bay. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo-op spots in the botanical garden drew queues. Gowings started moving Akubras briskly, and as the Opening Ceremonies got nearer and nearer, the Aussies perked up noticeably. That sunny...
According to James S. Hoyte, former Massachusetts secretary of environmental affairs, and current assistant to President Neil L. Rudenstine, establishing the independent role of the MWRA was one of the most important parts of the harbor revitalization...
...Boston Harbor is so gorgeous," says Jeanne A. Gosage of Duluth, Minn., "I'm happy that I am finally able to come here on vacation...