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...relay. Was victory sweeter because it came at the expense of the Cousins? You bet it was. And that win changed everything for the British men; without it, they would have left the Athens track without a single medal. The medals table, especially the gold column, reflected global political and economic patterns that have been playing out for more than a decade. The main event was between the traditional might of the U.S. and the surging ambition of China, with the Americans reaching their gaudy goal of 100 medals by Saturday night, 34 of them gold, and the Chinese right...
...Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu. His column continues weekly, no matter how badly you wish it didn?...
...Although you don?t know Phyllis, Phyllis knew everybody. I?m going to flood this column with famous names, and I might even boldface them in the manner of Walter Winchell, the gossip guru who featured Phyllis frequently, and always with respect, in his columns. It?s a facile way of saying that this woman you don?t know touched the lives of the rich and famous with whom she grew up and grew older. But Phyllis wasn?t the sum of her connections; she was the emotional glue that held them together. It wasn?t the people she knew...
...might think that reading a long appreciation of Phyllis Jenkins would be as useless as learning Esperanto. But in the long view, everything has a use - including Esperanto, as more than one kolera leganto (angry reader) informed me when I made a joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward?s ?Blithe Spirit.?? So the co-starring of a stage veteran and a pretty novice gave a showbiz fizz to the Kirkland-Adams alliance. In his nationally syndicated column, Winchell gave space to the couple when they got married. And the same five years later, when they went phffft...