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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pretty strange situation. Whichever, I'll tell you, it's indicative of where Olympic sport is today. The U.S. track and field team may pose as a unit on NBC, but down here it was comprised of a core at the Village with several of these brilliant satellites in orbit. Team Johnson, with Michael and his golden shoes, was headquartered at a hotel, Team Marion was out in a suburb called Bankstown and the Greene Team, itself a subset of HSI, had a beach rental. Olympics in the new millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...continues to navigate her way through electronica, this time with French producer Mirwais Ahmadzai. Less adventurous than Ray, Music is more consistent. Madonna has to work hard to summon real emotion, but a few songs, including the skittery Don't Tell Me, manage a dry pathos. Locked in orbit high above mere mortals, she still has the power, on occasion, to turn our tides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music: Madonna | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Madonna collaborates with French electronic producer Mirwais on the new record--and he's much edgier than William Orbit, her Ray of Light producer, who's more commercial, more wedded to the harmonious melding of synthesizer and voice. Mirwais isn't a big believer in coherence--he wants sounds you've never heard before, Music with a capital M. But it's not completely unfamiliar. Listen and you'll hear the cool, chilly beats of Erotica, mixed with the warm melodies of Bedtime Stories, tinged with the gurgles and blips of Ray of Light; all stirred together into a rich...

Author: By By SOMAN S. chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rebirth of Madonna | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...Impressive Instant" will get even the stodgiest of boys on the dance floor and "Runaway Lover" takes the momentum and spins another crisp (if slightly repetitive) club tune. William Orbit returns to contribute "Amazing," an even more souped up variation on the melody of "Beautiful Stranger...

Author: By By SOMAN S. chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rebirth of Madonna | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...other extra-curricular activities to which they commit hours every week. We all share a common goal of trying to pack more into twenty-four hours than will ever fit until one of our alumni uses his Harvard training to invent a method of slowing the earth in its orbit. So where is the way out of this impasse...

Author: By Kathleen M. Coleman, | Title: Running Low on Midnight Oil | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

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