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...will be held in the Panathenaic Stadium, originally built in the 4th century B.C. and used in the 1896 Games. The marathon race will retrace the route of the very first marathon man, who sped with news of victory from the battle at Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. Toss in Greek charm and an eagerness to succeed, and the Greeks may have the formula for a happy and successful Games. With a population of 10.9 million, Greece is the smallest country to stage the Summer Games since Finland in 1952, when the Olympics were a considerably more modest affair...
...close. When the parties drew up new districts this year, they largely obeyed a time-honored principle of mutually assured incumbency. But the latest Census resulted in Connecticut's losing a House district, so state lawmakers merged Maloney's and Johnson's. Their race and the few other toss-ups will decide whether Dick Gephardt will take over the Speaker's gavel. The most recent poll has Johnson leading 44% to 39% among likely voters. She has built that small lead while greatly outspending Maloney. At last count, she had raised more than $2 million; he had a quarter...
...tough on crime'' talk, Silvio Berlusconi's overhaul of Italy's justice system is remarkably sensitive to defendants' rights. The billionaire Prime Minister has pushed through new laws that ease penalties on fraud cases and require judges to toss out evidence gathered abroad if it has been mishandled along the way. This week, the lower house of Parliament will begin debate on a Berlusconi-backed "change of venue" bill that would give the accused wide latitude to request moving a trial to a new jurisdiction if he suspects judges are biased. Is Berlusconi a closet bleeding heart for the plight...
...worse at the start of Hollywood Hong Kong: the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated pig carcasses hanging in Chu's Barbecue Shop, or the blanched, blood-flecked, bloated Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his obese sons Ming (Ho Sai-man) and Tiny (Leung Sze-ping). Perhaps the pigs, in a toss-up. They are dead. The Chus look only halfway there...
There are certain unbreakable laws to the survival story. Take an unlikely character, pluck him out of the anesthetized womb of daily life and toss him into a harsh environment. Test his physical endurance through hardship and privation, his will to live through isolation. And if at all possible, throw in a full-grown royal Bengal tiger...