Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Well, even before Opening Ceremonies, I was having fun. This is a big gambling nation. It's got less than a percent of the world's population but more than a fifth of the poker machines, these "pokies" you see everywhere. The Melbourne Cup horse race day is an undeclared national holiday, and the Aussies bet on cards, numbers, events and animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror...
...opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those who say 'Why are we doing this?' - tunnel vision, I call it. Just look at this city...
...wave. You know how I hate the wave, but to see 10,000 people doing the Bondi Slow-Motion Wave while they play "The Skater's Waltz" on the loudspeakers - that's pretty special. Beach volleyball's been able to retain its fun-in-the-sun, Moon Doggie feel even in the Olympics...
...Even so, Washington and its European allies are patting themselves on the back for a good return on the $25 million they spent in Yugoslavia building up the opposition (except Kostunica's party, which received no foreign help) with direct grants, training and equipment. The U.S. is ready to deal with anyone but Milosevic, although it realizes President Kostunica could prove a handful. He's not the Serb devil Washington knows, but he's still a determined nationalist with contrary goals...
...inner-city Baltimore don't get to be boys for long. Brandon Harlee was two years old, in his mother's arms, when his father shot her, leaving her legs paralyzed. His dad left the family, and Brandon grew up in a neighborhood rife with drugs and gangs, where even little kids learn to act tough. By sixth grade, Brandon was becoming too much for his mom - and his school - to handle. Though he showed promise on aptitude tests, he scored Ds and Fs in his classes and was constantly in trouble for fighting with other students...