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...gymnastics; the swim team alone took 28 medals. While flip turns and double Arabians are cute in a quadrennial sort of way, they do not display the full range of what Americans consider athleticism, nor do they make easy metaphors for national character. That's what home runs and slam dunks are for, and with the baseball team not even qualifying for these Games, the weight of American ego fell on a basketball team that is not very good...
...Intelligence Agency and eliminate its name. George Tenet broke his silence as recently-retired Director of Central Intelligence to warn that the Roberts proposal "would result in the demoralization of a proud and extremely capable agency and less security for the American people... It is time for someone to slam the brakes on before the politics of the moment drives the security of the American people off a cliff." Numerous other CIA defenders were equally critical of a plan to put much of the U.S. intelligence community under the new name, National Intelligence Service...
...actually a dog. Insiders claim that the President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling him a Siamese during a recent Larry King Live had alarmed even Republicans, but the revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe...
Detroit's Slam Dunk The pair behind the NBA's biggest upset in 25 years...
More than a year--but no WMDs--later, those words have returned to slam-dunk Tenet. It doesn't help that the controversies over Iraq and 9/11 follow on intelligence failures stretching back almost to the beginning of Tenet's reign. In his seven years as director of Central Intelligence--only the legendary Allen Dulles served longer--Tenet revived morale at an agency devastated by post--cold war budget cuts and a sharp drop in recruitment. But he also presided over blunders that included the agency's failure to foresee in 1998 that India would test an atomic device...