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...first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Field Of Dreams | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...could not be found. She took her stance. The gun sounded. She got a fair start, but was clearly behind. She went into the far turn gaining but came out of the near turn still trailing Jamaica's Lorraine Graham. Flashbulbs sparked the tension; the stadium was a live wire. In the stretch, Freeman finally caught Graham, then strode ahead, the noise rising as her lead lengthened, and exploding as she crossed the line first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Field Of Dreams | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...course, with this approach. Should Beijing win the 2008 games, it's hard to imagine a local show making fun of the Beijing authorities the way commentators have made fun of Michael Knight, the state's Olympics Minister. One declared that Knight "had put his testicles on the wire--to use a meteorological term--that the weather will be fine for the opening ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laugh Track | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...kind of guy who would rather be a male nurse than a doctor. Also the kind of guy whose luggage the airline is bound to lose. And the sort you know is going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Foolishness | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...basic images loom through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Do the Labels Fit? | 10/7/2000 | See Source »

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