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OLYMPICS: The Reward Rests in the Competition, Not the Result...
When it comes to blocking terrorist plots, the U.S. has learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup: a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack a U.S. airline installation...
...White House and for the other in Congress in order to dilute their powers. Your complaint that politicians don't listen to the people is wrong; they listen too much. They are only too aware that you won't stand for unpopular and painful programs, that you won't reward politicians for courage, if it hurts...
...Olympics have a built-in advantage, for the Olympics offer no official cash prizes, and they reward the majority of their competitors with nothing but bright memories. For every Larry Bird or Steffi Graf, there are at least 300 athletes with the odds firmly stacked against them. And for every Ben Johnson, there are a hundred others who are neither competitive nor affluent enough to boost their chances with illicit drugs. The Olympics, in fact, are a festival of underdogs: at least 130 of the nations that will compete in Barcelona will have the luxury of being...
...American self-made millionaire and Olympian -- he had placed sixth in the 1912 pentathlon behind Thorpe -- Brundage had convictions that were nothing short of religious. "The Olympic movement today," he thundered, "is a revolt against 20th century materialism -- a devotion to the cause and not the reward...