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...this Olympics business." Stathatos was speaking not of the record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know how to do things right," he said. Stathatos peered down the empty track, then smiled awkwardly. "I hope the world is wrong...
Jonathan Thornton finally found a job this spring after six months of unemployment. "My wife and I almost parted ways after 13 years because of the financial strain," he says. When he started work in April as a crane operator at a screw manufacturer in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, Thornton treated his wife Rita to a few little luxuries--a day at the salon, an evening out with the girls. "My outlook has definitely brightened," he says. But Thornton's optimism goes only so far. His paycheck has grown, but the family is still just getting by. Thanks to rising...
...biggest screw-ups in Crimson history. Seriously, I’m in the history lecture. You should comp just to hear...
...think with 1,000 meters to go we knew if we didn’t screw up we’d win,” McDaniel said...
...shave will do. TOM SELLECK got rid of his famous mustache and almost all of his hair to play General Dwight Eisenhower in A&E's biopic Ike: Countdown to D-Day, about the 90 days leading up to the Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once had on a little NBC show called Friends...