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I'm sorry you missed this one, honey - this Olympics. It was a true beauty, the best I've seen. Wish you'd been here. XOXOXO

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Damn commies are whupping us even from the grave. Back in the heyday of communism, the gray bureaucrats in Moscow took great pride in their ability to leave the U.S. in the dust at the Olympics - after all, it was only at the Games that the Soviets could make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ¡Ay, Caramba! Or, How Cuba Almost Won the Olympics | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

And while Russia's 88 medals in Sydney may have put it in second place behind the old enemy's 97, that's only because Moscow lost most of its empire in the last decade. Add only the 17 medals snagged by tiny Belarus or the Ukraine's 23, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ¡Ay, Caramba! Or, How Cuba Almost Won the Olympics | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Roach, now 45, is one of an estimated 100,000 Aborigines, living and dead, who make up Australia's so-called Stolen Generation. Under a government policy that ran from 1910 to, unbelievably, 1971, as many as 1 in 10 of all Aboriginal children were removed from their families in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stolen Generation | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

That experience in no way resembled the Olympics week of Greene and Jones. These two Americans were about to embark on high-profile, high-stakes, big-money quests, and they each needed a bubble. They needed their own versions of what the great British miler Seb Coe called "a cocoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Flyers | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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