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...four partners between them (Sale placed 12th in pairs in the 1994 Olympics) and even dabbled in singles skating. They first tried teaming up in 1996 but nothing came of it. Two years later, both their careers had stalled: he was selling beer and hot dogs in a Montreal stadium for $10 an hour, and she was waitressing at an Edmonton coffee shop. While the rest of the skating universe was still buzzing about the Nagano Olympics, Pelletier flew to Edmonton for a second try, and the two clicked. The minute Pelletier got back home, the phone rang...
...Across town was another sign of distress. At Kabul Stadium?the scene of ghastly Taliban executions in the past?Afghans squared off against international peacekeepers in a football game, the first live entertainment in the capital in nearly a decade. The event was marred by stone throwing, tear-gas firing and beatings as foreign troops struggled to hold back thousands trying to cram into the already brimming 30,000-seat stadium. Against the warlords, Karzai is similarly outmanned. Though he can count on widespread support from both the West and Afghans sick of the fighting and bullying, his rivals have...
...legendary Hungarian footballer who was part of the Hungarian squad that won gold at the 1952 Olympics, but was famed as a member of the"Golden Team" that inflicted on England its first defeat at home by an overseas side when it beat them 6-3 at Wembley Stadium in 1953; in Budapest. DIED. TRAUDL JUNGE, 81, Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942-45, who took his last will and testament in a Berlin bunker two days before he committed suicide; in Munich. Junge died hours after a documentary on her life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED...
...most fun I’ve had watching the Olympics is when I’ve let myself imagine what it would be like to hear the national anthem played in front of a stadium full of people. The athletes deserve our thanks, not only for carrying the remains of a tattered World Trade Center flag but also for bringing out the best of America, for example Vonetta Flowers becoming the first black woman to win a gold in the winter games...
...ENRON FIELD The Houston Astros have filed a motion to force Enron to give up its 30-year, $100 million naming rights to the team's home stadium...