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...professional sports we have often allowed these expectations to take a back seat to our own entertainment. As a society, we’d rather sweep Barry Bonds’ drug allegations under the rug and pay huge ticket prices to see him continue to break records than to watch just one more average player. We are a culture that reveres achievement at any cost whether in the board room or on the playing field, and in a year dominated by corporate, political, and athletic scandal it’s evident that as long as our expectations are so high...
...Hurricane Ivan continued its savage sweep through the Caribbean, devastating the little island of Grenada and battering Jamaica, Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, got ready to fly out over the frenzied ocean. As a scientist, Goldenberg was thrilled by Ivan's wild beauty. As a longtime resident of Dade County, he was worried about the welfare of his wife and kids...
...image softening, and another magazine's crew is waiting to do a family photo shoot. Bush has remade this Texas landscape to suit him: put in a lake and stocked it, planted the oaks and laid out the house so the winds would sweep through it. That's the way of his world: something to be shaped, by work and will. Whatever his handlers say, the softening will have to wait because right now he could not be more serious...
...steal the event. (She was caught and tossed out.) But now the party's over, the carnival has left town, and we're left feeling less than triumphant. Some of it is just the inevitable morning-after blues. But there's more to it than that. As we sweep up the confetti and pack away the unsold T shirts, we find ourselves struggling with a huge fiscal hangover. By latest estimates, the Olympic tab will be twice the initial forecast of $5.5 billion. Greece's public debt is already more than 100% of gdp and its budget deficit...
...exercise. But Carly Patterson, 16, whose klutziness in the team final let Romania beat the favored Americans to gold, scored strong 9.7s on those routines, giving her the first U.S. women's all-around gold since Mary Lou Retton's in 1984. It was America's first individual sweep. For Patterson, the "new Mary Lou" label is inevitable. But she may lack the perkiness factor that has kept Retton in the public eye. The '84 champ hasn't stopped smiling since Los Angeles, but Patterson barely showed any enamel when a group of cameramen asked her to flash...