Word: unevennesses
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...tears didn't come immediately, and not in public view. Svetlana Khorkina, Russia's best hope for an individual gold medal in gymnastics, had fallen. She slipped from the uneven bars an unbelievable second time in a week. She hadn't lost on that apparatus in seven years, and that streak included getting gold in Atlanta. Now, in Sydney, she walked off the mats, brushed past her coach - a man who had been with her since grammar school - and went to sit alone. She held back the tears as the sports paparazzi pressed in, waiting for her to crack...
...health, but it might be assumed that when the Russians found themselves in fourth place and nearly two full points behind the Chinese after the fourth rotation, it would make anyone sick. The women got silver, a performance only slightly less humbling. When team leader Khorkina fell off the uneven bars for the first time in her disastrous week, the team dropped to second behind Romania. The Romanians have been winning World Championships of late, but they had never won a team gold in an unboycotted Olympics...
From the outset of the campaign, Kostunica was forced to fight an extremely uneven and dirty battle. Milosevic's war against the independent media, which culminated in May with a violent takeover of Belgrade's only independent TV station, left Serbia in complete media darkness. As a result, Kostunica can access the voters only through a strenuous door-to-door campaign. Furthermore, Milosevic doesn't hesitate to use the police to crack down on his opponents, with arrests, kidnappings and beatings becoming a daily occurrence. Despite the dramatic escalation in political violence, Kostunica succeeded in uniting the anti-Milosevic Serbia...
...crafty, riff-driven XTC warhorses like "Respectable Street" will immediately respond to " Playground," whose natural buoyancy reaffirms Andy Partridge's mastery of the thinking person's guitar rock. There's no denying that departed guitarist/multi-instrumentalist's Dave Gregory textural touch is missed, and the song quality is a bit uneven, but even on a slow day these guys manage to leave most of the competition standing still...
...dancelike quality on the floor, with a toe point that ballerinas would envy. Ray performs one of the most difficult programs of any female gymnast, which should place her shoulder to shoulder with the favored Russians and Romanians in Sydney. Already, she has a signature move, a gasp-inducing uneven-bars maneuver in which she flies off the high bar, twists 360[degrees] in the air like a diver heading for the water, grabs the bar, swings through and does it all over again. "When I saw it, I couldn't believe she did that," says Comaneci, 1976 Olympic gold...