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...body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks and I run. He's a god - the walker." In Athens, Korzeniowski, the best racewalker of all time...
...subtle reminder of Beijing's ultimate sovereignty over Hong Kong. MEANWHILE IN IRELAND... It's All Greek to Them The Irish postal service rejected suggestions that it had confused Cyprus with Crete on a stamp issued to mark the May 1 expansion of the European Union. Ireland - current holder of the rotating E.U. presidency - issued the stamp in the form of a map showing the organization's 15 old and 10 new member states. But keen-eyed philatelists quickly pointed out that the island that was supposedly Cyprus was of the same shape, and in the same location, as Crete...
...Bash For The Big Bang It was a long time coming. Skies across the Continent filled with fireworks in the early hours of Saturday to mark the European Union's enlargement from 15 to 25 member states. Ireland - Europe's westernmost country and current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency - played host to European leaders to celebrate the Union's historic inclusion of 10 new members from the East. In Brussels on Sunday, ambassadors planned to hold a friendly football match, each wearing T shirts with the same magic number: 25. Appreciation of the day's significance was most...
...lawn in a quick 20 minutes, smoking a cigar while he cuts the grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There's enough juice under the hood--with a "high torque," liquid-cooled 24-h.p. engine--to tote his three sons in a wagon. "If you ask my wife, it's a toy, and she's right," he says. The price of his fully loaded lawn chariot: $17,000, same...
Stenhouse, who tied the record in 1978 and is also the school record-holder in single-season batting average (.475), was a 1979 Oakland A’s first-round draft pick—how many of those have come from Harvard?—and made his MLB debut with the Montreal Expos in 1982. He played three seasons with the Expos and one with the Twins before retiring in 1986 with the Red Sox. Yes, those...