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...offer a rare chance to forget that trite line, trotted out each Olympiad, about how it's a victory just to be here. For once, they're the best. "In the past, you hardly saw any small nations on the medals table," says i.o.c. member Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco, whose 1984 gold in the women's 400-m hurdles in 1984 was her country's first. "It's globalization in the best sense...
...train, got a world-class coach or won a bronze medal at the African championships in May, the feat that qualified him for Athens. OS "is indispensable," says Hassene Ikhlef, who coaches Alassane and 19 other scholarship holders at the International Center for African Judo (CIJA) in Rabat, Morocco. Without the funding, nations like Niger "would be very sparsely represented. These countries don't have the means to train properly, to travel, to compete." OS was born along with the newly independent nations of the developing world in the 1960s and 1970s. "There were suddenly all these new Olympic committees...
...duties of a Manhattan baby in those days was two-end candle-burning: study all day at school and, in the evenings, frequent the better nightclubs. Phyllis lent her young radiance to such swank boites as the Stork Club and El Morocco, where, she said, Errol Flynn once proposed to her. (She didn?t say what he proposed.) ?By her midteens, Phyllis was regularly getting her photo in the New York Times as a bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning...
Youssef El-Mejjasy, a Massachusetts resident of five years who emigrated from Morocco, said that this election would his first...
...deadliest threats often come from their own families. Reliable statistics on honor killings are nonexistent; as in other countries in the Middle East where the tradition is tolerated, such as Egypt and Morocco, honor killings are largely treated as private family matters in Iraq. In conservative tribal communities, women who lose their virginity before marriage or who have an extramarital affair are sometimes murdered by family members seeking to avoid the shame and social isolation that the clan is subject to if one of its female members has sex outside marriage. Under Saddam's laws, which are still in place...