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...American Jenny Thompson might have something to say about that. Thompson, who calls Australia "Swimming Heaven," strode to the starting blocks like this was her old rec center pool in her hometown of Dover, N.H. Thompson likes it Down Under - and Australians love her. Thompson has spent the last two winters in Australia, training with her friends. But even friends can be beaten. Thompson, 27, helped the American women comfortably win the female version of the 4 X 100, and with that win she became the first American woman ever to win six gold medals...
...opening night of the G.O.P. convention, Colin Powell--who doesn't need an alliterative catchphrase to make him seem compassionate or a four-day extravaganza to make him look presidential--strode onstage to the beat of his own drum. Like other speakers, he'd shown up earlier that day to get comfortable with the setting and pick up stage directions, including the prohibition on wearing a white shirt on TV. But unlike other speakers, Powell did not have to turn over his speech to the Bush high command. However, he did phone Bush that afternoon to alert him that...
...infamous Taxachusetts. The State Senate was overhauled as Weld waded through the miasma of budget debacles left by the late, great Michael S. Dukakis. Praise of Weld in the ultra-liberal Boston Globe simply became ubiquitous. A champion of abortion rights and an advocate of gay rights, Weld strode about the State House continually shocking his Republican supporters and constituents. Seemingly, there was nothing he could do wrong. Massachusetts had found her messiah...
...Delay is more than another Republican Clinton basher: he is the general who lined up the final votes to impeach the President. So when the House majority whip strode smiling toward the Oval Office one morning this spring, Bill Clinton's aides whirled around with who-let-this-guy-in grimaces of disbelief. DeLay's excuse was a White House bill signing with other members of Congress. Yet as soon as Clinton saw him, the President walked over, shook his hand and drew the Texas Representative aside. There were golf jokes. And then two of Washington's biggest adversaries settled...
...event, the product of three months work, was composed of what the BJs called a "random" collection of talent--from a reverse stripper (who strode out wearing a g-string, and then sexily re-dressed) to the men's basketball team to the women's a cappella group, The Pitches (whose members broke into a catfight...