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...from being a pure and timeless island whereon youth can meet untrammeled to test body and spirit in the full glory of individual competition, the Olympics have become one ol the most dramatic and powerful political arenas of the century Palestinian terrorists understood that when in 1972 they crashed into Munich and left eleven Israelis dead. The Olympics so dramatically catch the attention of the world that hey have become an irresistible repository for all kinds of political hopes, benign and malevolent...
...their best, they are vivid with the drama of humanity in quest of pure excellence...
...roadmap of Seamus Heaney's soul. In them he has left Belfast and the political images of past volumes and retreated to the fields. He's headed to the coast, "through flowers and limestone" to eat the day "deliberately, that its tang/Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb." And an active, transitive verb at that. Heaney always places himself in each animated poem: in a record of his four sequestered years in the country, he wanders from the water's edge to open shed, from a stone pier to a deeply tilled...
...contest, the cagers' first in their last five outings, was pure excitement from start to finish, well worth the two-hour trolley ride to B.C.'s gymnasium...
...Afghanistan. Argued Sayad Ahmed Gailani, 45, the strongly pro-Western chief of the relatively new United Islamic Revolutionary Council: "We believe in democracy and modernization, and the majority of Afghans are with us." Countered Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 32, the fervently traditionalist "Amir" of the long-established Islamic Party: "A pure Islamic system was established 14 centuries ago, and any regime that differs from that ideal is unacceptable." At the end of the loquacious jirga, as such a gathering of tribes is called, the only agreement the squabbling chieftains could reach was to appoint a delegation of three elderly mullahs...