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...rematch of last year's Ivy League Championship, the Tigers and the Crimson battled intensely for five tight games, with Princeton emerging the victor...
Kenteris sped past Ato Boldon and Darren Campbell in the last 40 m, yet the only person who seemed unsurprised by his win was the victor. "I felt I could do something more. That is what I tried in the final," he said. The absence of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson won't take the shine off his new piece of jewelry, either. "As you know, there was a tragedy in Greece recently [a shipwreck that killed more than 50 people], and this will help relieve some of the pain people are feeling...
...vice-presidential debate of the 2000 presidential election was a cleanser of the political palate for any voter who watched it. And if Al Gore really has irrevocably expanded the role of the vice president in governing America, that torch will be well carried no matter who is the victor in November...
...Ceremonies were a rip-snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when the home team appeared - good reasons all. The Americans are always an unruly, larriken lot, and of course...
...With reporting by Victor Gusev/Moscow