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...viewer cannot see so clearly the effect of the internal wake- up calls, the biological clocks, the steady tick, tock, tick. Ye Qiaobo, just after becoming the first Chinese athlete ever to win a Winter medal, in the women's 500-m speed-skating event, got up on a podium a composed 27-year- old woman in a purple track suit who had been done out of her gold, she felt, by a competitor's error. Would she protest? "Maybe I will try" -- and the whole room held its breath -- "to set my sights for the next Olympic Games...
Then there's the drooping jowls. He slumps. And his head always seems to be a tad off center. For good reasons, Tsongas seems uncomfortable standing at a podium...
Tsongas' supporters, of course, point to substance of positions and intellectual integrity as attributes far more important than appearance on a podium...
After hugging his wife, Tsongas took the podium and said, "Well, New Hampshire, you did it again. You gave them hell...
...microphone. He firstthanks the union leader and several other bigwigs."He's been with me since the very beginning...Shehas done tremendous work for the union...He is mylong-time friend and supporter." He is reading thenames off note cards an aide slipped him as hestepped to the podium...