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Unto this breach rides Dick Lamm, who admits that his is as much a crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...
...team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...
Still, in Olympic City you can get a chill from something other than a giant Coke bottle. In the Coliseum Tent there is an exhibit of "priceless artifacts" from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Whether it be Baron Pierre de Coubertin's saber or Jesse Owens' track shoe or a medal from the first Games in Athens, the artifacts can do a better job of transporting you to the Olympics than, say, the mountain-biking simulation. The museum pieces are not only keepsakes of the Games' history, but also reminders that this city has been handed a glorious legacy...
...other hand, though Friday can be psychologically astute, she also suggests in describing a soleful fetishist that "sooner or later, the shoe, the vagina, and the penis are going to have to sit down together and have it out." It might work best as a musical number. Not since the cowboy and the farmer became friends in Oklahoma! has there been such potential for a square dance...
...What he did was take this stone on our shoe that we were going to strike over, and...what he really did was bring some innovative language to the table," Bozzotto said. "Remember we've had two strikes over this stuff, and if they had negotiated the way they used to, there would have been a third...