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...have tripped up most spectacularly in sports that the People's Republic usually dominates. Last Tuesday, China's women gymnasts?a misnomer, really, given that most of the athletes are no older than 18 and look half their age?botched their performances in the team final, finishing a miserable seventh out of eight. "The team is very young," explained coach Lu Shanzhen. "We did very badly today, but I hope to build a dream team by 2008." A day earlier, in the choke performance of the week, China's male gymnastics team tumbled from gold-medal shoo-in to fifth...
...gold team medal and a silver in the individual all-around in Sydney, leaned over and patted Teng. "He shouldn't worry, because he will have another chance in Beijing," commented Yang. "Teng's still a young boy full of hope." Two days later, Yang himself floundered, finishing seventh in the individual all-around event, after being pegged for the top honor. "In the future, I'll practice even more," he promised. "I'd like to say to the Chinese people that I'm very sorry...
...Oganesyan didn't say how it would reach this goal, but analysts see no other options besides grabbing chunks of Yukos. But that may only be the first step, a senior Russian cabinet official tells Time. Next, he says, Rosneft may mount a takeover bid against Slavneft. Russia's seventh-largest oil company is now co-owned by YukosSibneft and TNK-BP, a Russian-British holding company. But with Sibneft slowly unwinding its merger with the embattled Yukos, Sechin-led Rosneft may be in the best position to buy Sibneft's stake in Slavneft. "If Sechin can pull...
...seventh day of fighting between Marines and members of Sadr's Mehdi Army in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, in which hundreds of militiamen have reportedly been killed, Marines supported by helicopters and tanks entered the city to throw a steel cordon around the militants holed up in and around the Imam Ali Mosque, Shiism's holiest shrine. Sensitive to the danger that any damage to the shrine could provoke a nationwide Shiite uprising, the new Iraqi government insists that U.S. soldiers won't actually enter the shrine. But the intensity of the fighting clearly carries a huge political...
...Page and Sergey Brin seem to be doing their darnedest to dampen the hype. The company last week gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 a share, or more than 150 times annual per-share profit. (Most large companies average about one-seventh of that.) Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page and Brin are trying to scare away those in search of a one-day profit--by snapping up shares in the IPO at a low price and selling them as soon as the price jumps--or they want...