Word: olympia
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...Reid style can be found in his handling of that hottest of issues, abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception. He joined with Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to offer a bill ordering private health-insurance plans to cover birth control. He successfully filibustered for including such coverage in federal-employee health plans. Kate Michelman, former head of naral Pro-Choice America, says, "I'm honored to be his friend...
...place finishes at the national championships last spring. In addition to returning lettermen, Washington transfer and sophomore Brodie Buckland will certainly help carry the load for the Crimson. Though this is his first season in Crimson, Buckland is all too familiar with Harvard’s recent success. The Olympia, Wash. native stroked the UW boat that took second to Harvard at last year’s IRAs...
...strong 101st is gone, replaced last February by the 8,700 soldiers of Task Force Olympia, a multinational brigade of coalition troops. Although they include a large number of U.S. National Guard reservists, American soldiers have largely taken a backseat to the Iraqi National Guard. So far, as in the rest of Iraq, the performance of these new units has been mixed. "The current invisibility of American soldiers has made people happier. People feel more comfortable with Iraqi soldiers," says Dindar Doskar, head of the Mosul office of the Kurdish Islamic Union (KIU). "But there are not enough Iraqi soldiers...
...systems worked faultlessly. Those of us who chose to stay did our civic duty as volunteers for the Games. We even scrambled to fill the stadiums so that the events could look perfect on TV - admittedly, we were only occasionally successful at that one. Some of us schlepped to Olympia, the sacred birthplace of the Games, to watch a Russian woman shot putter on steroids try to steal the event. (She was caught and tossed out.) But now the party's over, the carnival has left town, and we're left feeling less than triumphant. Some of it is just...
...awash in sportsmanship. In other words, it was unlike an Olympic event, ancient or modern. It was, as U.S. silver medalist Adam Nelson called it, "shot put Nirvana," held in the house of Zeus. With the sun rising over verdant hills, crowds streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when it had last hosted the Games. The shot putters paraded on the field beneath the same archway as did the ancient Olympians. "It was awesome...