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...TIME: Wow. With Bush's oil ties...
COLIN FARRELL'S frontal nude scene was cut from A Home at the End of the World when test audiences found it "distracting." Wow. There's someone Farrell hasn't flashed...
While we're used to lauding the pixies, success for the U.S. men is less familiar. Just compare the reactions: after the U.S. men's team won its first team medal--a silver--in a nonboycotted Olympics, the guys were bumping chests. Second place. Wow! At the end of their team final, the silver-medalist women sat glumly on the bench, glaring at Romania's Catalina Ponor as she shimmied for her clapping teammates, knowing the gold was a lock...
...this case, the Olympics has provided that sense of purpose. But then, as Gould points out (citing Dennis Phillips' 2001 book, Australian Women at the Olympic Games) women athletes have always outperformed the men. "I think it's just perception ... every four years we go, Wow! Women are doing really well. But women are always doing well; it's just not being reported," she says. What's different in the pool, she insists, is a new style of coaching adopting techniques from sports beyond swimming; Stephan Widmer (Lenton) and Shannon Rollason (Henry and Mills) exemplify this cross-training approach. Gould...
Jimmy Carter’s Nobel lets him say whatever he wants. (And saying Bush misled the American people—wow, that’s pretty hot stuff. Kudos to the convention’s planners for managing to make even so simple a factual criticism as this taboo for anyone but a former president...