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...number of fans supporting the perennial world champions was approximately zero. And though this was their national day, no flags were flying in their honor. Nonetheless, the Cuban baseball team went out and polished the diamond till it sparkled, showing off all the sports-for-sports'- sake swagger of a team that has won 63 of 64 international games in recent years. All but unknown prodigies with names like Omar and Orestes and Lourdes gave a master class not only in the fundamentals but also in the finer points of flamboyance -- bunting one-handed, stretching singles into triples, chiseling...
...Zmeskal stepped out of bounds at the end of a tumbling run, NBC played the clip over and over again--along with her mother's anguished reaction. A couple of days later, when Trent Dimas performed a routine that won him a gold medal, the number of replays was zero...
...balmy beach-front Olympic Village, as the teams began arriving, 50 or more Iranians could be seen sitting in rows in dull beige uniforms, like nothing so much as condemned POWS, fending off questions about why their team consisted of 40 men and zero women ("Their records are not strong." "Women are not interested in sports"). On the other side of the room, Enos Mafokate, the lone black member of South Africa's equestrian contingent, was red-eyed with exhaustion and excitement. "For 30 years," he said, "I have dreamed of this. When they told me I was going...
...wrong. The journalists who cover the White House do a damn good job and print almost zero that is not confirmed by at least someone who ought to know. But because they are covering the president, their editors want something every day. After all, he is the president, and they are paying a huge sum to send their reporters out with...
...Massachusetts delegation, only Rep. Gerry Studds (D) said he would vote for Clinton. Rep. Chet Atkins said he would "vote the popular vote of the nation," but the other nine members wouldn't say. Hmmm...Wonder how those other nine Democrats and zero republicans would...