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This year in Sydney there will be two more signs that these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history are two American women who came to their sports via goat roping and tree-house building. Since those events aren't yet sanctioned, lifter Cheryl Haworth and vaulter Stacy Dragila will have to settle for medals in what used to be exclusively male pursuits...
...latest Los Alamos security lapse may mean big trouble for Bill Richardson, but they're unlikely to trouble Bill Cohen much. Energy Department officials admitted Monday that computer disks bearing an undisclosed amount of classified information on both U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons went missing from a vault at Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier this month, in the wake of the brushfire that saw much of the facility evacuated. And while officials stressed that they don't believe at this stage that espionage was involved, the revelations certainly leave egg on the face of Energy Secretary Richardson, who ordered...
...time - yes, yes, imagining Woody Allen surviving time in a jail cell is part of the humor, I'm sure). This time, Ray notices that a store next to a bank is up for rent and convinces his friends and Frenchy that they could tunnel into the bank's vault from behind the store. They buy the store under the cover of a cookie bakery, Frenchy churns out the dough, the boys tunnel in the back. Where they end up, of course, is entirely different than any of them planned...
...have an affection for, an empathy towards. It's just something that I feel at home with. I can vicariously be a criminal and do those things that I fantasized about when I was younger - in this movie, I get to tunnel under store to get to a bank vault. It's such a pleasure for me to live out my year making that kind of a film...
...other Harvard winners were Bethany Helms, who won the 800 in 2:14.45, and Amy Bei, who won the pole vault with a 10-foot jump. Sophomore Loni Sherwin placed second in the pole vault, giving the Crimson a one-two finish in the event...