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...comes in “Some Kind of Nature.” Lou Reed is just the right man to feature in the song, his aloof monotone casually capturing the essence of the repetitive and opaque lyrics—“Some kind of mixture / Some kind of gold / Some kind of majesty / Some chemical load / Some kind of metal made up from glue / Some kind of plastic I could wrap around you.” While these lyrics present nothing in the way of narrative or even clear subject matter, the concepts of industrial fakeness and natural richness...
What was it like to become the first American woman to win gold in an Olympic downhill? -Franois Xavier Warlomont, Libramont, Belgium It was incredible. I didn't know that an American woman had never won a downhill. When I found that out after winning the race, it was really something special. I was just trying to ski well and accomplish a childhood dream. (See pictures of Lindsey Vonn...
...feel about some sports broadcasters, coming into the Olympics, comparing you to Michael Phelps? -Bill Bae, Colorado Springs I'm no Michael Phelps. He's obviously a great Olympic champion. I was never expecting to win five gold medals. For me, my goal has always been just to win one. Thankfully, I've already got gold, and that's what I came here for. I'm no Michael. I'm just...
...athlete who has endured years of intense training only to subsequently fall short in front of millions. Take Evgeni Plushenko. Following his silver-medal performance in men's figure skating, the Russian repeatedly insulted his first-place opponent, America's Evan Lysacek, and all but climbed atop the gold-medal podium ... Wait, he did that too. But Plushenko is hardly the first Olympic sore loser. Athletes have pouted their way home almost since the modern Games began...
...role in scoring disputes. A botched 1972 U.S.-Soviet basketball game briefly heated up the Cold War when a disputed time-out and a wrongly reset clock effectively handed the Soviets three chances to beat their political rivals. They did, by a single point. The Soviets got the gold, and the U.S. team angrily refused the silver. Thirty years later, when Russia found itself with an embarrassingly small number of medals in 2002's Salt Lake City Games, the Duma blamed U.S. imperialism and considered skipping the closing ceremonies. So much for graciousness in defeat...