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...entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes to do. Budd, now 19, still barefoot and 10 lbs. heavier than in Los Angeles, remained close behind in second, often just a nerve-racking whisper away from Slaney's shoulder. But their feet...
...both parties, David Vitter, 43, Louisiana's newly elected Republican Senator, stands out. A staunch conservative who broke into politics in 1991 when he won the state house seat vacated by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Vitter quickly made a reputation as a loner and political bomb thrower. He peppered Governor Edwin Edwards with ethics complaints, led the successful fight for term limits in the state legislature and exposed a cozy perk by which lawmakers secured Tulane scholarships for favorite constituents. When Vitter won a special election in 1999 to succeed Congressman Bob Livingston, who resigned the House...
...He’s a guy who just runs around and makes plays,” Knowles beamed about the Crimson signal caller. “He’s a hard runner and he’s a great thrower. We didn’t underestimate him in any way, but defenses aren’t going to have too many answers for that...
...City, when many countries carried the Stars and Stripes along with their own flags. There was none of that this time, though the negative reaction U.S. athletes were prepared to expect hasn't surfaced either. "Coming in here, I was conscious of the possible dirty looks," said U.S. hammer thrower Jackie Jeschelnig in the Olympic Village, "but honestly, I haven't seen them." In fact, the U.S. delegation received one of the loudest roars of the evening, U.S. politics having been given the night off. But Iraq--whose soccer team shocked global powerhouse Portugal the night before the ceremony...
...style is to be a diplomat, not a bomb thrower." DAN GLICKMAN, onetime Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture, just named to succeed Jack Valenti as chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America...