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...Spurred by the cavalry - 120 Akubraed riders, including Paul Hogan - the Opening Ceremonies were a rip-snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when the home team appeared - good reasons...
...Crimson leapt into action immediately after a six-hour bus ride, and still managed to tussle with the Tigers in a back-and-forth battle...
Before Mejias had any time to recover, the ball wound up at Hoyem's feet. Hoyem settled the ball and launched a point blank shot towards the Harvard goal from the edge of the box. Mejias sprang up from his slide and leapt, knocking down the hard shot and then gathering...
Webber threw the ball high to Campbell along the left sideline well past the first down marker. As Campbell leapt into the air to catch the ball, Murphy and Fried came barreling into him, and the players fell down in a heap out of bounds. The referees decided that Campbell's momentum would have pulled him out-of-bounds regardless, so the pass was ruled incomplete, and the Brown drive was over. But Murphy, for his self-sacrifice, was left sprawled on the sideline with a concussion...
Happily, not everyone's safety has been left in the hands of a glacially slow congressional committee (and the attentions of phone company lobbyists who see a considerable chunk of their clients' revenue disappear into thin air). One community has leapt to the defense of pedestrians and responsible drivers everywhere: On Friday, the township council of Marlboro, N.J., announced a ban on drivers' use of hand-held phones. And while the image of disapproving councilmembers might not inspire the fear and trembling required to convince errant drivers to pry their Nokias from their ears, perhaps the prospect...