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...Jeeves and their screwball cohorts at Blandings Castle and the Drones Club. So rich is Wodehouse's legacy that it is difficult to understand why he almost destroyed it. As Robert McCrum recounts in his exhaustive, elegantly written Wodehouse: A Life (Viking; 530 pages), the author was at the peak of his popularity when, in 1941, he made a series of wartime broadcasts for the Nazis while interned in Germany. He was not coerced, but he clearly misjudged the seriousness of his action. In Britain, politicians denounced him in Parliament and columnists in print. Libraries withdrew his books. The British...
...Like many Olympic hopefuls, Blake trains in a modern matrix of tech and technique, mind and body. Olympic coaches and athletes now exploit a wide range of mechanical, video and computer devices designed to coax peak performance out of human bodies. Complex cables propelled by pulleys drag runners faster than they thought they could sprint. A new machine from France lets speedsters run virtual-reality races against the best in the world. Innovative video software allows swimmers and divers to break down their performances frame by precious frame. Like Blake, many athletes have been "sleeping high [in altitude-simulation tents...
NATALIE COUGHLIN AGE 21 HOMETOWN Concord, Calif. EVENTS Swimming--100-m freestyle, 100-m backstroke, relays THE DRAMA Coughlin could have raced in five individual events but chose only two, so she'll be in peak form for the three team relays. THE COMPETITION Don't miss the 100-m freestyle, where she faces world-record holder Lisbeth Lenton of Australia and reigning Olympic champ Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands. Coughlin is the first and only woman to swim the 100-m backstroke in under 60 seconds; she's untouchable...
...former McKinsey consultant, she helped Stewart craft a multimedia lifestyle conglomerate out of her cookbooks, television specials and endorsement deals. Patrick stood by her side when Stewart rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 19, 1999, the day the company went public. At its peak, the stock reached nearly $40 a share, but it has dipped close to $5 since news of Stewart's sale of ImClone, a biotech-company stock, surfaced in June 2002. That sale triggered a federal investigation and her subsequent conviction last March...
...your mouth?" The N.R.A.'s first print ads are scheduled for a special edition of the National Journal, to be circulated at the Democratic Convention next week. LaPierre denies that the group is having fund-raising problems (though he won't share figures) and says the N.R.A. campaign will peak in October, when it will formally endorse candidates...