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...CLEANED. Michelangelo's DAVID; in preparation for its 500th birthday celebration later this year; in Florence. The five-meter-tall marble nude had not received a thorough cleansing in more than a century. Despite worries that the process could damage the masterpiece, the restoration team insists David is "the same as ever...
...direct hit--I never knew whether from the enemy or our own tanks--and the whole crew was killed. After we took another hit, we found a little wood and dug in. The order to all tank units, maybe from the Fuhrer, was not to yield a single meter. Before I slept that night under my tank, I wrote an angry letter home. As a young officer, I thought we could have broken the invasion if we'd been better...
...WHITE, 27, American sprinter; from competition for two years, costing her a trip to the Athens Olympics; for using performance-enhancing drugs; by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. White was also stripped of all her victories since December 2000, including gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints at last year's world championships...
...flawless damage control, and the White House was helped, perversely, by the ghastly death of Nicholas Berg, an American entrepreneur free-lancing in Iraq who was beheaded on-camera by a man the CIA believes to be Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Berg's death reset the moral-equivalence meter and reminded the world who the enemy is. U.S. officials said privately they could not believe that the terrorists had such a poor grasp of public relations. Between the prison scandal and Berg's death, it was easy to imagine that the war for Iraq's hearts and minds...
...Harvard men all-Ivy sophomores Samyr Laine and Lawrence Adjah were the impact athletes once again, grabbing 11 points by themselves in the triple jump. Adjah—who finished second behind Laine last weekend at Heptagonals—made his mark with a jump of 15.40 meters that landed him in third place. Laine’s mark of 15.26 meters put him right behind Adjah in fourth, and just over half a meter behind the winner, Jeff Weaver of Army...