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Defending gold-medal sprinter Greene will wear Adidas' Formotion Sprint Suit in Athens if he qualifies this week for the Olympic team at the U.S. track-and-field trials. The suit, made of advanced fabrics, will be available to consumers next spring...
...Shahwani brings one other advantage to the job: intimate ties to the CIA. A onetime international athlete who won a gold medal in the decathlon at a 1963 athletic meet in Jakarta, he was sent to the U.S. for Ranger training four years later. By the time of Iraq's conflict with Iran in the 1980s, he had become commander of the Iraqi Special Forces School. During the war, the combat vet led a daring helicopter-borne recapture of Iraq's strategic Kardamand mountain, held by thousands of dug-in Iranian defenders. But Saddam distrusted such displays of talent...
...medal for perfect timing goes to Chris Mackey, whose The Interrogators (Little, Brown; 484 pages), written with journalist Greg Miller, recounts his experiences in Army intelligence, grilling Arab prisoners in Kandahar. Watching him agonize over the ethics of his techniques provides rare insight into a process that, in the wake of Abu Ghraib, we urgently need to understand. This Man's Army (Gotham; 288 pages), by Andrew Exum, is a candid description of life in an ultra-hard-core Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan's Shah-e-Kot Valley, as well as a surprisingly thoughtful meditation on the philosophy...
...second time in as many regattas, Harvard crossed the finish line within striking distance of a shell with medal hopes at the upcoming Olympic games, taking runner-up honors in the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River in London on July...
...figure-skating duo known as the Kennedy Kids, who became the first American pair to win a world championship when they captured the gold in London in 1950; in Seattle. Kucher and her older brother, Peter, won five consecutive U.S. championships from 1948-52 and a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics...