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...presidential election or something--was nothing less than sensational. Moving from strength to strength, the Sydney Games followed the hosts' heroics in the pool with thrilling competitions in everything from the beach brand of volleyball to the Greco-Roman flavor of wrestling, then topped the whole thing with a spectacular track meet--a meet that featured a performance for the ages by Australia's Cathy Freeman, a young woman who ran with no less than a continent on her delicate shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Field Of Dreams | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Alaska is home to some of the country's most spectacular expanses of wilderness. Its capital, known as the Gateway to the Glaciers, boasts such nearby attractions as Admiralty Island National Monuments, home to the world's largest concentration of brown bears, and the Juneau Ice Fields. Dogsledding--courtesy of Leo's brethren--is one way to see the sights www.mtjuneauinn.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Northern Exposure: MOUNT JUNEAU INN, JUNEAU, ALASKA | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Crimson Arts is starting to heat up just as the weather is about to cool down. Look for some spectacular interviews in the next couple of weeks... Uggh. Can either Bush or Gore pleeeeaassseee do something scandalous? This whole campaign has been a journalist's worst nightmare. Where's the fireworks? Warren Beatty totally should have run. Speaking of Hollywood and politics, Tinseltown seems completely flummoxed as to handle the election. Normally, they all vote Democrat but Gore and Lieberman killed that trend with their talk of "cultural pollution." Now Susan Sarandon's got the whole town talking Nader... Walking...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...Cheney gets a chance, he could inflict a few blows on his opponent: Lieberman is vulnerable on his once staunch opposition to Hollywood-sponsored violence, which has dwindled considerably in the past few months of spectacular fundraising efforts in Los Angeles. Cheney's best shots, however, will probably come in the form of attacks on Gore's policy record and fundraising practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney vs. Lieberman: Let's Get Ready to, um, Rumble! | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

...with me, ladies and gentlemen, Svetlana Khorkina. Thank God for Russian divas! America could never produce a Dostoyevskian heroine like Khorkina - with her razor sharp hair line, her aquiline features, her glares, her screams, her wails, her brilliant hits and her spectacular crashes. At the team competition, she moped and giggled, smiled and cried, and chewed the scenery so viciously that she almost single-handedly destroyed her team and then brought them roaring back. And if all the drama wasn't enough, the image of her angrily tearing off her silver medal at the end of the night was enough...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: In The Know | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

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