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...Baghdad, authorities wavered between efforts to keep him at arm's length and attempts to invite him into the political process. The Bush Administration regards him as a thug and refuses to engage with someone it sees as a carbon copy of Iran's ruling mullahs. Nor do Western officials in Baghdad trust his tactics. "We've been watching him take over the city of Najaf bit by bit by bit," says an official. "That experience has given us cause to question his credibility when he makes promises and to wonder whether he is prepared to play in a political...
...Kirsty Coventry, 22. First, the cherubic swimmer won silver in the 100-m backstroke and bronze in the 200-m individual medley - her troubled country's first medals since 1980, and the first swimming medals ever for any African nation besides South Africa. Then, on Friday, in the final length of the women's 200-m backstroke, Coventry found herself in the lead, but with her stamina flagging and Russia's Stanislava Komarova roaring back. "Just hang on," she told herself - and she did. Her perseverance was golden. "I knew about the history," she said afterwards, all smiles. "I just...
...raft as it goes over the rapid sideways and comes to rest at a curious angle on a log. As cold water pours over my shoulders into the boat, I keep saying robotically to my companions, "I'm concerned, I'm deeply concerned." A rafting trip down the length of one of Australia's last, and greatest, wild rivers seemed a natural progression from a 10-day bushwalk around Tasmania's tough south coast last year. There I'd trudged for hours through thigh-deep mud, learned to scoff at leeches and icy, slanting rain, come to love instant mashed...
...handful of lesser Olympians, India had chosen Bollywood stars and cricketers as the guardians of sports' supreme icon. The crowds were huge, and understandably so: the incongruous sight of India's finest actor, Aamir Khan, outfitted for his latest role as a 19th century anti-British mutineer with shoulder-length hair and a handlebar moustache, jogging with the futuristic metallic torch, was undeniably arresting. The newspapers went front page with pictures of an equally unlikely torchbearer?actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, kitted out in a white tracksuit, giggling with her boyfriend, actor Vivek Oberoi. It was a perplexing...
...Fair Lady, and a few months later I found myself winging back to Broadway, at which point my young career very nearly came to a screeching halt. I'd been performing professionally since I was 12 years old, and before I came to America, I must have toured the length and breadth of England many times, playing music halls, doing holiday shows and singing at concerts. Yet other than The Boy Friend, I had never done a book musical, and Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower peddler who becomes a lady, is probably one of the greatest and most difficult roles...