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...spirit of the Games. Passing through 11,000 hands during the torch relay's 100-day, 27,000-km journey, the Olympic flame has brought Australia into closer touch with itself. The relay "symbolizes everything that's good about the Games," former marathon champion Robert de Castella has said. "Somehow it's been able to capture the balance between the grass roots and the elite side of the Olympics." In a chain of simple gestures, the Olympic ideal was made tangible...
...listened to him because he was a physician. We doctors somehow feel that the 'M.D.' protects us. It hit us that doctors die too," says Dr. Lauren Shaiova, who treated Frimmer for pain and arranged to have him speak at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Frimmer was his own best end-of-life student. He filled out an advance directive, updated his will, organized his finances, assigned power of attorney, sold off some of his photographic equipment--and allowed his wife Debbie to do something he'd previously resisted: "I don't like animals, but when...
...That would turn out to be the high-water mark of the government's three-year pursuit of Wen Ho Lee. Before Christmas, prosecutors asked Federal Judge James Parker to deny Lee bail and hold him in solitary confinement before trial, lest he somehow communicate to allies or foreign governments how to find the missing tapes or destroy evidence. The government based its plea on testimony from the FBI's chief investigator in the case, Robert Messemer, who said Lee had engaged in a pattern of deceit, misled the government about his contacts with Chinese officials and written letters seeking...
...went home and took the Web tour. Not quite the same thing, somehow. But considering the fat check my family writes this school every year, I should have gotten into Dumbarton Oaks for free. Who is Harvard catering to, if not its students...
...lots of what would now be called "transgressive art" - popular works that exceeded or demolished the official standards of probity. I attended horror movies, read vivid comic books, gorged on a diet of rock 'n roll. (And what was the most extreme TV genre of the decade? Wrestling.) Somehow I survived; miraculously, so did my parents, nice conservative Catholics who monitored but chose not to restrict a boy's outlaw tastes...