Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent think-tank, is urging a delay. ICG held press conferences Wednesday in London and Sarajevo to argue that the collapse of any semblance of democracy in Bosnia threatens to cement the ethnic division that sparked the war in the first place. The group's opinion carries significant weight, as its chairman is highly-regarded former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, now President Clinton's adviser for Northern Ireland. "In all parts of Bosnia, there is no freedom of expression, no free press, little or no voter education, and indicted war criminals remain at large," reports TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer...
...they were, two men robbed by fate in '92, covered in the cheers of 80,000. When it came time for O'Brien to take the stand, he remembered he had left his warm-up suit behind. So he borrowed the suit of another man of similar height and weight. That's how Michael Johnson's track suit pulled its own double Thursday night...
...sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only 230 miles from the nearest real sand, beach-volleyball fans sipped daiquiris in their bathing trunks while strangers sprayed them down with high-tech, fluorescent-green water pistols. And when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy machine with a pencil flashlight...
...dreamers come to live in dorms, meet new friends and learn about the world. And, in doing so, they teach us about the four other Olympic qualities that the fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women...
DEFECTED. RAED AHMED, 29, Iraqi Olympic weight lifter who carried his nation's flag into the opening ceremony. Ahmed exclaimed, "I'm escaping from the hell of Iraq...