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...entered. All immigrants and children in public, private and religious schools should receive a continuous program of civics, tolerance and respect demanded by our democratic societies. This is not just a war on the ground but also a struggle over the freedom of the mind. Stephen Vineberg Montr?al...
...Sporting superpowers China, Australia and France each had at least five athletes finish in the lowest spot. And Greece, which ended the Games with the smallest medal tally of any host country since Canada won only 11 medals at the 1976 Montr?al Olympics, appeared at the bottom of the list at least eight times. One of the most poignant final-place finishes, though, came from Brunei's Jimmy Anak Ahar, the Southeast Asian nation's sole Olympic athlete, who straggled far behind the pack in the 1,500 m, erasing his country's dreams of Olympic respectability. Still sucking wind...
...team won gold, but the triumph was treated not so much as a watershed victory as a rightful return to the top tier. After all, before tumbling from grace in the 1980s, Japan won the men's team-gymnastics gold at five consecutive Olympics, the last at the 1976 Montr?al Games. In swimming, for that matter, the country bagged 12 medals way back in 1932, five of them gold. "We're just getting back to where we were before, when we were a strong swimming nation," says Kitajima, who attributes the Olympic squad's splashy performance in Athens to their...
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