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...since 1997's Nimrod, the Berkeley trio wasted no time in plugging the disc, opening with its first single, "Minority." From there, though, the band shied away from a greatest hits type performance, something eminently possible, in favor of a friendlier, all-request format. This slapdash approach was a stroke of genius-it drew the audience into the set and the interaction gave the group a reason to keep going...
...Gore look unlikable. So Gore started with a gambit his daughter Karenna thought of: "I'd like to start by offering you a deal, Jack. If you won't use any football stories, I won't tell any of my warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." In one stroke, Gore got in a semi-funny self-deprecating wonk joke and got Kemp off his game. Gore spends the rest of the debate picking at differences between Kemp and Dole (watch for this one from George W. Tuesday), unprepared Kemp wilts...
...hand, American breaststroker Megan Quann, 16, visualized victory over world-record holder Penny Heyns of South Africa. "When I swim at practice it's her that I see in my mind, and it's her that pushes me every day," said Quann. In her head she played out every stroke; she could feel the water in her fingers, taste it on her tongue, see every tile in the 50-m pool. "She's going down," Quann had taunted the dual Olympic champion before the Games - it was, indeed, a narrow vision splendid...
...freestyle since ever, and with a sprinter (Hall) against a middle-distanceman (Thorpe) at anchor, they didn't figure to lose now. But the Thorpedo is special; he's magic. He had the lead, he lost it, he found it again with his very last stroke. Thorpe's swim was, instantly, the greatest in Australian history. As his mates oi-oied, then played a little air guitar on the deck for Hall's listening pleasure, the natatorium rocked with cheers. So did the mansion in Kirribilli, the ranch down in Canberra, the whistle-stop pub on the Indian Pacific line...
DIED. STANLEY TURRENTINE, 66, soulful blues-based tenor saxophonist whose 1970 crossover hit, Sugar, inspired today's "smooth jazz"; of a stroke; in New York City. A three-time Grammy nominee, Turrentine played with Ray Charles, Max Roach and Herbie Hancock early in his career and in 1953 replaced John Coltrane in Earl Bostic's band. He also made forays into pop music, including a 1976 jazz interpretation of Stairway to Heaven...