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...French cycling fans could choose the ideal athlete to win the centennial edition of the Tour de France, who would he be? He'd be French, of course. Surely the last thing the French would want to see is the crowning of a Yank as Tour champ - especially one who hails from the same state as George W. Bush. What could be more galling to the Gauls on July 27 than to see Lance Armstrong - whose record, cocksure manner and red-white-and-blue, government-sponsored U.S. Postal Service team screams American domination - atop the podium on the Champs-Elys...
...defending the use of race in university admissions decisions, Powell cited Harvard’s policies as a model in Bakke. O’Connor explicitly echoed Powell on this point, referring multiple times to the “Harvard plan” as ideal. She also cited a book co-authored by former University President Derek C. Bok and a study on affirmative action by Gary Orfield, who is the founding co-director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, and Harvard research assistant Michal Kurlaender...
...We’ve been very interested in finding someone with a strong Cambridge knowledge base, and [Lucey] is that ideal candidate,” she said...
...Still in the intensive-care unit, he felt strangled by a noose of pain and needed three excruciating gasps of air to cry for help. "I was crushed," says McDonough, 69, a former weapons-plant inspector from Littleton, Colo. He once loved to fish and dreamed of restoring his ideal car: a 1965 Chrysler. But he soon realized that he could do neither and came to believe that his surgery had been unnecessary. A jury agreed. It found his neurosurgeon guilty of malpractice and in 2001 awarded McDonough $5.8 million. He has yet to see a dollar...
...second season, The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) moves its action to Baltimore's port, where Detective James McNulty (Dominic West) has been exiled to the harbor patrol for ticking off his bosses. The waterfront is an ideal setting for The Wire's murky morality--a place that is neither here nor there, the porous membrane between America and the Other, the teeming intake for legal and illegal markets. Its shipping containers, stacked for acres like so many Pez, feed a ravenous economy with cameras and vodka and hookers--this season's case starts when a group of young women...