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...Robert Korzeniowski cruises around the track at his training base in the northern French town of Tourcoing, his body - tan, lithe, tautly muscled - obviously belongs to a world-class athlete. But his gait belongs to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks. His legs do a speedy, almost balletic sashay. His arms pump hard, as if daring his bottom half to go faster. The Pole, world-record holder in the 50-km racewalk, is zooming. "When I train with him," says Norway's Kjersti Plätzer, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist in the women's 20 km, "he walks...
...They cleaned up their base rate and got a real strong middle 1,000 going,” Phillips said. “I think they really solidified that middle part of the race...
...stress positions, says Miller, the current commander of U.S. prisons in Iraq. But Miller also says that sleep deprivation was never used in the 22,000 interrogations he oversaw at Guantanamo Bay, which he ran from November 2002 to March 2004. Other sources who have served at the base tell TIME sleep deprivation was used for certain prisoners. So were forms of humiliation: female guards routinely watched while detainees used toilets or took showers, say two sources who claim to have observed the practice...
Then there are the national implications. "The Bush Administration will love to have this debate in a number of key states, including ours, so they can gin up their base," says Stephen Schneider, an aide to Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski. Democrats point out that in 2000 Al Gore won the state by just 6,800 votes; now they fear that conservatives enraged by gay marriage will more than make up that difference at the polls...
...problem in sports marketing, particularly in baseball, is you're always walking a very sensitive line. Nobody loves tradition and history as much as I do." BUD SELIG, baseball commissioner, on the uproar over the decision, revoked one day later, to advertise the movie Spider-Man 2 on base covers at major league games...