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Skillfully managed, gracious and well spoken, Thorpe has been embraced by a public disturbed by the antics of sportsmen such as local tennis brat Lleyton Hewitt. Thorpe's impact on Australian youth has been compared with the Tiger Woods phenomenon in golf. "He's become a similar figure of hope, an ultimate role model," argues 1988 Olympic 200-m champion Duncan Armstrong. Thorpe has been a cover boy on magazines ranging from the frivolous to the prestigious, and many Australians feel they know a lot about him?from his shoe size (17) to his taste in music (grunge...
...still a fun idea, and season two will be an occasion for reminiscing. But maybe we didn't have to meet the players. Once you start juxtaposing reality with "reality," only minutes after the illusion is completed, you demystify too soon. Which is the quickest way to a quick phenomenon's death...
...crisis; he was misquoted on the subject, but the newspaper corrections didn't get the same play as the original charge. That's not to say Gore doesn't exaggerate; he does. But plenty of other people in his line of work do too. "It is not an unknown phenomenon," he notes dryly, "for politicians to tell the voters what they've done and, in the process, try to put the best face...
...looked up to in boys," he says. "Being artistic or musical is not." He cautions, however, that not all child bullies are the cool kids--some are among the most depressed students in a class and may be reacting to being bullied themselves. Pollack is also worried that the phenomenon is on the rise, partly because families spend less time together, which leaves boys fewer outlets for productive communication. "It's a national epidemic," he says. "Both the amount of teasing and the intensity of it have increased over time, and the stakes are higher. We're talking...
...Clinton. Of what other president could you say that after two full terms (and relentless scandal - impeachment even!), he looks fresher, livelier, than he did when he came into office? Clinton is a phenomenon - of resilience, of survival, of some life force (either heroic or sleeplessly cunning) that causes his admirers to marvel and his moralist critics to foam at the mouth...