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...verge of collapse, Army Lieutenant Michael Daly was leading his company through Nuremberg, Germany, when it encountered machine-gun fire. Shielding his men, Daly crept forward alone and single-handedly vanquished 15 German troops in four separate firefights. For these acts of heroism, Daly was awarded the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration. Daly also earned three Silver Stars, two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star during his service...
Needless to say, torture didn't make the Iraqi soccer team play better. But once freed from Uday's depravity, the team flourished. At the Athens Olympics in 2004, they went all the way to the semi-finals, losing the bronze medal game by a single goal to the mighty Italians. They had been the Cinderella team of the Games, and like their proud countrymen, I celebrated the team's success. Three years later, as their country was being torn apart by a bloody sectarian war between Shi'ites and Sunnis, the team (comprising of players from both sects...
...Beneath the stadium, a few minutes before the medal ceremony, the Americans told Norman their plan. To their surprise, he backed them. They didn't know that the Melburnian, raised in the Salvation Army, was a Christian who didn't so much loathe racial prejudice as not understand how it could exist. When Carlos revealed he'd left his gloves at the village, it was Norman who suggested that the Americans share Smith's pair. Norman was never going to raise his own fist, but did wear a badge that said "Olympic Project for Human Rights", an organization that...
...world record for the 50-m freestyle in 1983, LeBron James hadn't even been born. The arc of athletic celebrity has changed. You can be a star at 15 and again at 41. Torres' remarkable swimming comeback and James' single-minded determination to bring back the gold medal in basketball are so compelling, yet so different, that we decided to do two TIME covers to show the breadth of our Olympic preview, which begins on page 44. And as evidence of our global reach, TIME's Asian-edition cover features Chinese athlete Liu Xiang, who four years ago became...
...President Francois Mitterrand, as well as reaction shots of Reagan after he lights the statue. Finally, all four networks will carry not only the swearing in of 258 new citizens by U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger but also reaction shots of the audience. Only ABC, however, will air the Medal of Liberty awards. The network argued that since the winners have been announced and Reagan is not speaking during the presentation, the event will not provide fresh news. Before the compromise was reached, ABC had planned to share about nine minutes of its 17 1/2-hour coverage with its competitors...