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...June, the winners bathe in the box office spoils of victory, while the losers pray that a sufficient number of out-of-towners will drop by. This year, many of the hangers-on won?t be hanging around. ?Aida? closes next week, followed by ?After the Fall? and ?The Boy from Oz? (in two weeks) and ?Wonderful Town? (five weeks). At least the spouses of prominent Republicans will be able to catch these shows. Two others didn?t wait for possible G.O.P. spillage. Last weekend rang down the final curtain on ?Caroline, or Change,? the most affecting musical play...
...eighth gold in a 24-year Olympic career. Or Liu Xiang, the first Chinese to strike gold in a short-distance track event, when he ran an Olympic-record 12.91 seconds in the 110-m hurdles. Or, of course, the most high wattage of them all, American golden boy Michael Phelps, whose devotion to PlayStation didn't keep him from winning eight medals in the pool...
...violence, and thus 10 years later, I have a 6-ft., 180-lb. defensewoman under my roof who loves to bang into people and knock their molars loose. My daughter is no shrinking violet. The other day I saw the little darling try to throttle a 6-year-old boy. She threw him down and was about to kick him in the pancreas. I called her name from the kitchen window, and she smiled a cherubic smile and poked him with her toe, just so he'd know what was on her mind. The old man shudders to see this...
...gymnast and his family, the depths come when you work your whole life for a single moment only to clang off the runway and into the scorer's table like a tipsy frat boy. During the all-around final on the most crushing apparatus in gymnastics, the vault, Hamm's weary legs couldn't support his landing, and he stumbled off the mat. A lousy 9.137 score dropped him to 12th place in the competition, with only two events to go. "I thought maaaybe I could win a bronze," says Hamm...
...city. We walked another block and saw three teenagers near the charred remains of a car who asked us where we were going. We explained that we wanted to go to the shrine of Imam Ali. "We are going to the shrine,? one said. ?You can follow us." The boy who wanted to show us the way was not older than fourteen. As we went deeper into the city, Talib decided to return to Kufa and left us with the kids as guides...