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...erasing his country's dreams of Olympic respectability. Still sucking wind after his 4:14.11 time, 40 seconds slower than gold medalist El Guerrouj, Ahar swept past reporters, his head downcast. Yet the Bruneian's performance was surely more honorable than that of Uzbekistan's Olga Shchukina, who not only finished last in her qualifying group in the shot put but later tested positive for an anabolic steroid, or Iranian flag bearer Arash Miresmaeili, who deliberately missed his qualifying weight in the 66-kg judo event after discovering the draw pitted him against an Israeli...
...terrorists in his remarks and has repeatedly said all manifestations of racism "are absolutely impermissible," some wrongly took his statement to mean that nonwhite ethnic minorities were no longer welcome in Russia. Many people interpreted the remarks as "legitimizing what had been piling up in the mass psyche," says Olga Starovoitova of the Institute of Sociology in St. Petersburg. Belyayev now frets that Putin is not a tough enough leader, and the country is disintegrating under the influx of nonwhite immigrants. Unless the Kremlin formally recognizes the neo-Nazis and shares political power, he says, the movement will be forced...
...Olga Arias, 46, knows what it's like to be obese. "Ever since I was a kid, I was probably always chunky," she says. "Every year I would just gain weight." By the time the 5-ft. 5-in. San Francisco city worker was 34, she tipped the scales at 260 lbs. "I was self-conscious about everything--getting on a bus, sitting in an airplane seat," she recalls. "I would put off seeing doctors, I was so embarrassed...
Experts say Allen isn't the only one to fall into these nettlesome traps. "The main problems are people's lack of familiarity with regulations and the belief they can cook food to be manufactured in the same way they cook it for immediate consumption," says Olga I. Padilla-Zakour, director of the Food Venture Center, part of Cornell University's food-science and -technology department in Geneva...
...Ingres a fellow revolutionary, albeit a more subtle one. Comparing more than 110 paintings and drawings, Picasso Ingres at the Musée National Picasso (March 17-June 21) brings together such works as Ingres' Portrait of Madame Rivière and its almost mirror image in Picasso's Olga in an Armchair. Ingres' masterpiece The Turkish Bath was one of Picasso's icons, and bits of it recur constantly in Picasso's work - in the 1906 The Harem, 1918's The Bathers, in jokey etchings of 1968-71. In 1968, Picasso also did a series of erotic and scatological...