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...them as team alice mills. They are here to watch Alice in her 200-m individual medley semi-final. In this same stand a few hours ago, when Alice qualified from the heats, her mother was trembling so much she couldn't operate her mobile phone to call her husband on the other side of the pool. "I had to push the buttons for her," says an Australian spectator. She's here for the big race, the men's 200-m freestyle, but she and her compatriots have adopted Alice for the night. For such an important event, an Olympic...
...hand touches just ahead of Hoogie's and the thousands of Australians sigh and slump exhausted into their seats. Two rows down, a portly woman is gasping for breath. "It's harder work up here than in the pool," she says. The air is cool now, but her husband is dabbing with his athina 2004 cap at streams of sweat. "My bloody oath," he replies. Strangers are toasting each other with plastic cups of Heineken, tough-looking businessmen with smiles so wide you glimpse the children they once were...
Take Federal Liberal M.P. Ross Cameron. The father of four, a prominent campaigner for family values, told Good Weekend magazine recently that he'd been "an unfaithful husband." He added: "People are entitled to have a more unvarnished view of who I am if I'm asking them to vote for me." Whatever his motives for applying coarse sandpaper to his reputation, Cameron is now likely to lose his marginal Sydney seat of Parramatta. The garrulous pants man may have believed he was doing the right thing by setting the record straight. But did anyone applaud the candidate's candor...
Though her parents often squirmed with worry and her husband occasionally shook his head in disbelief, Jenn Ripley has proved with her Atlanta-based store, Luxe, that you can profit from doing what large retailers like Loehmann's do: sell clothing from such designers as Gucci, Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney at a discount...
...fledgling business was born in her Brooklyn loft, and by the time Vogue ran a short piece on her venture, Ripley was already receiving phone calls from designer houses eager to unload their wares. In early 2003, after moving to Atlanta with her Georgia-born husband, Ripley opened Luxe, a 5,000-sq.-ft. store in the Buckhead section's posh Miami Circle design district...