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...athlete. The games are the oldest international athletic festival and still embody the purest spirit of competition. Each athlete competes wearing the colors of his or her country and therefore transcends the more mundane sports contest of man on man or team against team. Because those wearing the U.S. uniform represent not only themselves but the public as well, there is an expectation not present in professional sports that the athletes comply absolutely with the rules of fair and honest competition...
...morning in her village was the drone of warplanes circling overhead. Then came gunshots and screams and the sickening crash of bombs ripping through her neighbors' mud-and-thatch huts, gouging craters into the dry earth. When Abdulkarim, 25, ran outside, she was confronted by two men in military uniform, one wielding a knife, the other a whip. They were members, she says, of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which over the past 18 months has slaughtered tens of thousands of black Africans like Abdulkarim across the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Another man, rifle in hand...
While making artisanal breads demands a high degree of precision--especially for novices--one of the joys of making these loaves, as opposed to the uniform rectangles churned out by bread machines, is personalizing them to one's preferences. "You get to this point when you realize you can relax and allow instinct, intuition and empirical experience to play a bigger role in your efforts," says Jeffrey Hamelman, director of the Baking Education Center at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vt., and author of A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (Wiley; 432 pages). "If we look at breads...
...dozens of youngsters rise from their seats to chant in unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years ago, before Uganda became the first country...
...members of one ladder in the Baltimore Fire Department as seen through the eyes of Phoenix’s character, Jack Morrison. A sweeping timeline highlights the brotherly bond formed by the men in the firehouse, where duty takes precedence, but often clashes with their lives out of the uniform...