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...years, really delivered. We staged a successful Olympic Games - something the rest of the planet was sure we couldn't do. Practically from the moment Athens was named as the venue, in 1997, folks began predicting we'd make a hash of it. (How many times did headline writers trot out groaners like "big fat Greek flop"?) But we defied the Cassandras. The graceful canopy that construction crews hauled over the main Olympic stadium just in time didn't come crashing down. The flashlights we tucked in our bags for fear of a blackout were never used...
...increasingly popular, risk-free endorsement strategy is to trot out old goldies like Retton, who appears for a nanosecond in a Sprint PCS commercial that started airing last month, or Spitz, who will spend the Olympics in Athens blogging for panasonic.com They are among the rarest of gold-medal winners because they have such staying power. Most Olympic moments have notoriously short shelf lives, which means athletes with breakout performances this summer will have literally only a couple of weeks to capitalize on the momentum. Some past Olympic surprises, like gymnast Kerri Strug and sprinter Flo-Jo, had agents...
...upcoming U.S. remake of the French thriller L'Appartement. Brad Pitt's virginal sex slave in this month's Troy is a role with considerably more heat. And so, at 24, Byrne finds herself on Vanity Fair magazine's "Coming Attractions" list, and the cover girl for "Hot to Trot '04" in the New York Daily News. So will she attain her Moscow - that longed-for thing over the horizon called stardom...
...Marines aren't taking chances. Two days earlier, seven Marines were wounded in an ambush on this road. The Marines sprint away from the building as the first tank round thunders in. Soon after they trot past the rest of the company, the whole group starts to take fire. "I can hear yelling and talking to the north," a Marine tells Captain Bradley Weston, the company's commanding officer. A bunch of Marines jump up and fire back in the general direction of the noise. Others lay down white phosphorus to mark the area where the insurgents' fire seems...
...have won six of seven games against New York, including a sweep on the road in hostile Yankee Stadium. And they’ve done it without Nomar Garciaparra or Trot Nixon. (Granted, they did it without Byung-Hyun Kim too, which was probably why they...