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...back through what Bosnitch calls a "backdoor extradition" via deportation. Others counter that a U.S. passport is government property and must be surrendered upon request. "The U.S. government has the right to take your passport back at any time," says Stephen Givens, a Tokyo-based American lawyer. "Fischer can contest that if they screwed up in the process, sent notice to the wrong address or whatever. But they can go through that procedure again. That's no problem...
...Before Athens, Trillini had won four Olympic golds (three team, one individual) and Vezzali had won three (two team, one individual). On the morning of their duel, held in Helliniko on the sun-kissed coast south of Athens, "I cried because of the stress," Vezzali told reporters after the contest. "I didn't think of the gold at all." Trillini, a thoughtful and intense fencer, gained an early lead, scoring the only hit of the first round. But the energetic and effusive Vezzali surged back, parrying with increasing confidence and dazzling speed. At the start of the final round...
That's what it's like, both men are learning, to be in a tight presidential contest in the post-9/11 world, where message and stagecraft keep tripping over reality. Last week's terrorism alert, coming on the heels of the 9/11 commission's devastating account of the missed signals that might have saved thousands of American lives, put the two candidates at odds over terrorism in a way that was more confrontational--and personal--than ever. In a Rose Garden ceremony that reminded everyone of the advantages that come with being an incumbent Commander in Chief, Bush, surrounded...
...Athens Games, which begin this week, the cat-and-mouse contest between dopers and detectives will be sharper than ever. Athletes will be policed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an independent testing body created in 1999. WADA will forward its results to the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), which can then bar athletes from competing if they test positive for any of hundreds of illegal or prohibited drugs. Since its inception, WADA has been playing catch-up with better-informed and better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created...
Iowa may have only seven electoral votes, but in a tight contest, it's an important battleground. (Al Gore won the state in 2000 by less than 1%.) So residents of Davenport were hardly fazed when PRESIDENT BUSH and JOHN KERRY showed up for rallies on the same day, just blocks apart. The crooks in town weren't fazed either. With the cops preoccupied, three banks were robbed...