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...didn't. Or was it just Jen who wasn't pushing her weight? The brakeman's job in a two-person sled is primarily to propel the sled at the start. Go a tenth of a second too slow in this 50-m run-up, and you're a loser. Jean & Jen finished third in one race, out of the medals in all others, as Germans swarmed the podium. Racine told Davidson not to worry. On Dec. 5, says Davidson, she got a reassuring voice mail: "You and I are going to be on the U.S. Olympic team, and whatever...
...investigators say they have no evidence would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid is a well-trained al-Qaeda operative rather than just a flaky loner with a fondness for radical Islamic sayings. French Justice officials, however, are beginning to think differently. "There's simply no way this kind of loser could have planned and carried this out on his own," an official told TIME last week, referring to Reid's failed attempt to ignite explosives in his sneakers while flying from Paris to Miami last month. Reid, 28, reportedly told the FBI he found the explosives he used...
...Billiards Digest's Player of the Year. In 1997, he survived a three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed to before the match). A year earlier in Reno, Nevada, again facing Strickland, he had produced one of the most memorable shots on record. "Earl left him on the end rail totally tied up behind the nine ball," recalls Helfert, the tournament director. "It looked like there...
...Murdoch Sr. had bought STAR from Hong Kong's Richard Li in 1995 for $950 million. A perpetual money loser, it initially looked like News Corp.'s overpriced albatross. STAR has no shortage of eyeballs?it beams its satellite signal to 300 million people?yet it has virtually no control over subscribers on the ground. Instead, it is heavily dependent on advertising revenue. But STAR was a first mover in these vast new markets. And it was central to Murdoch's vision of constructing a global satellite network?a dream foiled recently by his failed bid for DirecTV...
...with stars and stripes and brave rhetoric about "these challenging times," but the elections proved that Sept. 11 changed politics less than those trappings might suggest. Viciousness took a two-week break after the attacks but returned in full force before Election Day (even in New York City, where loser Mark Green set the low mark with an ad alleging Michael Bloomberg had pressured a woman to have an abortion). The candidates with the most talent and money tended to win, and Tip O'Neill's old line about all politics being local held up once again...