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...father, a smoker, lecturing him about Islam's disdain for tobacco. He chided his mother for wearing Western-style clothes to work. Omar finally returned to Baghdad this spring, after the fall of Saddam's regime. When he showed up at the family home, his father's heart sank. Once clean shaven, Omar now wore a long beard, and his dishdasha, the traditional Islamic gown, fell several inches short of the floor. These are trademarks of Islamic fundamentalists...
Basketball has been a source of such exaggerated American pride for so long that it was hard not to admire Larry Brown's humility last week when it all sank in a sea of Puerto Rican flags. After the U.S. men's team lost to its little island cousin by an irrefutable 19 points, becoming the first Olympic squad to drop a game since the NBA started packing the team with stars in 1992, coach Brown said, "We got beat in every area. Every area." His mood did not improve following a clumsy 6-point victory over Euro doormat...
...Japan had more than doubled its total golden haul from Sydney and had claimed the No. 3 spot in the overall gold-medal tally, trailing only the U.S. and China. In the marquee swimming races, Japan's men won four medals?four more than in Sydney, where their squad sank without a trace. The country's female swimmers also captured three medals, including a gold in the 200-m backstroke. Equally impressive, in the men's team-gymnastics final, the Japanese, whose spiky 'dos made them look as if they were sponsored by a hair-gel company, flipped past favorites...
...Napster CEO Chris Gorog. Maybe, but for the Europeans among iPod's 2 million users worldwide, iTunes' arrival is music to their ears. France's Real Power Brokers France likes its picket lines. Strikes creating overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille, local electric company employees switched residents from daytime electricity rates...
...experienced even more of a momentum-killer in its first weekend of action, dropping two five-game matches to Towson and Furman. After the Crimson dropped all three of its matches without taking a single game on the California road trip the following weekend, Harvard’s record sank to a disappointing...