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Besides the terms drug scandal and BALCO, the phrase bandied about most often at last month's U.S. Olympic track-and-field trials in Sacramento, Calif., was "oldhead." It's the nickname track and field's rising young stars apply to their veteran counterparts. "They are the elders," says Justin Gatlin, 22, who will run in the 100-m and 200-m sprints in Athens. "The heads of the pack. It's a term of respect." Hurdler Sheena Johnson, 21, who ran a world-leading 52.95 sec. in the 400 m at the trials, isn't as polite. Says Johnson...
...worry, Sheena. They're almost gone. Age is chasing some champions off the Olympic stage, and an ugly drug scandal is hunting down others. Superstar Marion Jones, 28, didn't qualify in the two events, the 100-m and the 200m dashes, in which she took gold in Sydney. She's merely a long jumper. So while suggestions of drug use--which she vehemently denies--cloud her legacy, America's success on the track is no longer riding on her shoulders. She's just another oldhead...
Kerry seemed to stand down after he marched through the primaries. To the consternation of many Democrats, he played rope-a-dope as the Bush campaign spent more than $80 million on mostly negative ads against him. Kerry muted his attacks on Bush during the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal and the Marines' embarrassing retreat from Fallujah. I suspect these moves were intentional--part of the newly confident Kerry's grand design for the campaign: to lie low until July, when he announced his running mate in exactly the manner that he intended, and then to make the grand step...
...million in profits went to P.A. officials and their connections, but it does accuse several companies of profiting from the deal. Abdel Sattar Qassem, a Nablus academic who also plans to file a lawsuit this week against the politicians involved in the cement deal, says, if true, "The scandal shows that all the Palestinian official statements against the wall are lies." The Higher Islamic Council, the senior Palestinian religious body, issued a fatwa last month against anyone who contributes to the barrier's construction. "Building the racist wall is a sin," the Council decreed. Those involved "are not entitled...
TALE OF THE TAPE: Scandal time for a big Democratic donor...