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MOISES NAIM Editor in chief of Foreign Policy The optimistic view is that there is a silver lining to Hamas' ascent to power: there is nothing more educational and transformational than running a government in a poor country. The pessimistic view is that this will be the last election in Palestine for a long time, that Hamas' win will not go down in history as an example of the global march toward democracy but as another instance of the "one person, one vote ... one time" syndrome. It is too soon to tell which of these will be correct. The experiments...
...things went right for Apolo Ohno during his 2002 Winter Olympic debut. On the ice he won gold and silver medals in short-track speed skating, propelling the popularity of the hypnotically dangerous sport, in which athletes whirl around a 111-m oval with no lane markers while wearing 10-in. razor blades on their feet. Off the ice his wisp of a soul patch and X Games 'tude helped him dominate the event known as Olympic buzz. He was so popular in Salt Lake City that even female fans wore fake Ohno patches; afterward he was named...
...making fun of it," says Canada's Chris Moffat, a former singles rider now paired with younger brother Mike. Others take exception to the cracks. "O.K., we've heard the joke a million times," says Martin, 32, who won bronze with Grimmette in '98, silver in '02 and is chasing the U.S.'s first-ever luge gold...
...While the other U.S Olympic men's half-pipers ? 2002 silver medalist Danny Kass, 23, daredevil Andy Finch, 24, and Mason Aguirre, 19- chase the "The Flying Tomato," the women's competition is a two-rider race. Teter, 18, and defending X-Games champ Gretchen Bleiler, 24, fuel the most intense rivalry in the sport. Both can land the top women's move, the 900 (two-and-a-half spins in mid-air), with ease. And they do it while eyeing their antagonist. "We'll be like hanging out at the top, and I'll say, like...
...very, well, manly, Stanley says. But after a few active yet peaceful days in the warm sun--and as many deep-tissue massages--Stanley was singing a different tune. "Men are taking a different approach to remaining healthy and looking and feeling good," he says. Now the couple from Silver Spring, Md., get to a spa as often as time permits. They have been to the spa at the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, Fla., nine times in the past three years...