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...former mayor of New York City visited London last week and received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for his leadership on Sept. 11 and its aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime Minister Tony Blair. Visiting with members of Parliament, Giuliani...
...glory of the gold, the silver, the bronze--well, sort of. "You wouldn't expect real gold, silver and bronze, would you?" chortles one shameless rule bender. "The medals issued to winning cheaters are actually pot metal, painted. So afterward, when they sell them to some unwitting dupe for big bucks, it'll be a memory to last a lifetime...
...freestyle Tonya event, U.S. kneecappers, as expected, made a gold-silver-bronze sweep of it, but by and large the skullduggery inherent in cheating makes handicapping the favorites in most events difficult if not impossible. At Salt Lake City even the old stereotypes--nobody can cork a curling stone like a Canadian, the Swiss have a lock on clock slowing, don't even try outfoxing the French when it comes to slipping small animals into the luge run--promise to be severely tested. Blame escalating commercialism and its henchman, dollar power. Item: tiny Hindu Kush hires away the legendary snowshoe...
...none take tequila tippling with as much tongue-in-cheek seriousness as Tommy's. Sidle up to the bar, and the effervescent Julio Bermejo, 43, a political-science graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, launches into Tequila 101. An explanation of the differences among silver (unaged), reposado (aged at least two months) and anejo (aged at least a year) is only the start. Join the club for $10, sample 35 pure-agave brands (no more than three per visit), and you will get an oak-framed "tequila master's" diploma and a T shirt. But to attain a "Ph.D...
...only to veer wildly off across the mountain. Finding his way back to the piste, he resumed once more. Needless to say, he didn't make the cut. It was an apt encapsulation of Asia's performance: doing nothing right, over and over. True, tiny dynamo Hiroyasu Shimizu won silver for the 500-m speedskate, losing to American Casey FitzRandolph by only 0.03 seconds. But Shimizu, on painkillers for a back injury, got gold four years ago in Nagano, when Japan won five gold medals in all. This year it will be lucky to get any. The big Asian upset...