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...Bahrain - some of whom ran in head scarves - were treated with special reverence by the crowds. So was windsurfer Gal Fridman, who sailed Israel to its first gold medal in 52 years of competition, and whose victory seemed all the more appropriate given that his first name means wave in Hebrew. And when Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, perhaps the greatest middle-distance runner of all time, finally hauled in the 1,500-m gold medal that had eluded him in two previous Olympics, he fell to the track and bawled. His fellow runners picked him up and hugged him, then...
...Sadr's challenge occurs less in the realm of religion than in the realm of politics, where he's riding a wave of anger among the young Shiite urban poor frustrated by their lack of progress, enraged by the occupation, skeptical of the interim government and increasingly disappointed in the efforts of the traditional clergy, led by Sistani, to transform their circumstances. He's built his movement on the basis of a widening generational and social class rift among Iraqi Shiites. Sadr's challenge to both the clerical establishment and the traditional Shiite political parties is giving voice...
...cleared. And the fact that Sistani sees fit to go to Najaf not in a U.S. helicopter or government motorcade, but at the head of a procession of Iraqi Shiites willing to march into a war zone, suggests that he's recognized the need to align himself with the wave of outrage that has swept Iraq during the three weeks of the siege...
...bagged 12 medals way back in 1932, five of them gold. "We're just getting back to where we were before, when we were a strong swimming nation," says Kitajima, who attributes the Olympic squad's splashy performance in Athens to their extensive technical analysis of such things as wave resistance. "I think there's a sense that we're matching our past, not surging ahead...
...M.I.L.F.) chairman during an exclusive interview with TIME in Maguindanao province last week, his first since becoming the group's leader a year ago following the death of its founder, Hashim Salamat. Several dozen soldiers stand for nearly an hour with parade-ground stiffness until Murad gives a casual wave and a murmured command. The entire assembly immediately slumps to the ground with relief...