Word: silvering
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More than 10,000 athletes will participate in the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, where they'll run and swim and jump their way to some 3,000 medals. Each of them will be searching for gold. Barring that, they'll begrudgingly take silver or bronze. For while outwardly they may profess joy in the spirit of athletic competition, inwardly they all desire the same thing: a hunk of metal around their neck...
Once confined to large, lavish spaces, chandeliers were traditionally all about opulence, symbols of success hanging overhead in visions of crystal, gold and silver. Today's designs reflect more surprising and eclectic ideas - but in their whimsical twinkling, there's still a nod to the old magic. Here are three very different takes on the grande dame of extravagant lighting...
...fellow travelers does win, they will be treated lavishly by the Thai government on their return, which has promised a generous Olympic bonus of around $310,000 for a gold, $190,000 for a silver and $130,000 for a bronze. (The money will be doled out over a 20-year period, lest athletes blow their cash too quickly.) But for the athletes who don't win big, life will return to normal, sweating anonymously in sweltering gyms. Only the youngest can dream of another moment of glory four years from now at the London Games...
...silver lining for McCain is that the media's bias has sometimes backfired on liberals. One reason gun control and abortion have repeatedly been land mines for Democrats is that reporters never issued any warning signs. The press has long underestimated the political risks in liberalism. Obama's Reverend Wright fiasco was a case in point. Even though the two men had close ties, the press gave little scrutiny to the radical preacher for a year after Obama's campaign began. When attention finally came, Obama gave a speech that tried to shift the focus from their relationship...
...during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet--helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...