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Daring to Win A SHAME OF TWO HALVES If there's one arena where little Hong Kong was never supposed to challenge Beijing, it was on the playing field. Clerical prowess, perhaps. Rolexes per capita, definitely. But last week at home, the former British colony's notoriously lackluster soccer team...
DIED. WAYLON JENNINGS, 64, grizzled Grammy-winning country singer who recorded Nashville's first platinum album (Wanted: The Outlaws); in Chandler, Arizona. With his black Stetson and brash persona, Jennings, along with Willie Nelson, led country's outlaw movement of the late '60s and early '70s?a honky-tonk response...
78 Years Ago in TIME Today the Winter Olympics get major stories in TIME and wall-to-wall television coverage. For the very first Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, TIME covered the events in a single column. JOHN HESSIN CLARKE, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1918-22...
“What sport would you want to be in the Olympics for?”
The Olympics have always represented to me the pinnacle of athletic pride; replete with stories of devotion to excellence and overcoming tremendous barriers (and occasional totalitarian governments). Over the course of my 17-day affair with a set of five rings, I had been caught up in practical daydreaming for...