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...Wednesday night the nation will find out the winner. How has CBS been able to keep the secret this long...
...Sydney, Pedro and his teammates (including potential medalists Jason Morris, a 1992 silver winner at 81 kg [178 lbs.], Brian Olson at 90 kg [198 lbs.] and Hillary Wolf in the women's 52 kg [115 lbs.]) will be dealing with two distinct judo styles. The traditional Asian approach emphasizes speed and balance in order to knock the other judoka over. "With the Japanese and the Koreans there'll be a lot of space. It's a free-flowing, let's-see-who-can-throw-the-other-guy type of thing," says Pedro...
None dispute that this cannot last. Where technicians quibble is the exact future points of resistance on the upside and support on the downside. Is the pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...focus on anything but rowing," he insists. "I've missed pretty much everything fun that my nonrowing friends and family have done for the past 10 years because it would have meant missing training." Ask Smith--a veteran of seven national teams, including the '96 Olympic eight, and winner of five medals in international competition--about his girlfriend, and he starts to describe how hard it is to maintain a relationship while training. But within 30 seconds, he's back to talking about his workouts. When that curiosity is pointed out, he pauses for a minute. "See what I mean...
...Obviously the Gore team has decided that running against Hollywood sleaze is a winner, as evidenced by the Democrats' sudden, Sister Souljah-esque turning against longtime supporter Hugh Hefner. But what's really dangerous is a national political figure endorsing the notion that certain messages need to be controlled for the good of society. That technology and media have made it too hard to inculcate your own values in your children and that, therefore, we simply have too much freedom in society. That it's not good enough that I be able to turn off a sleazy program...