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Jones' big week in Sydney will also include the 200-m dash, which she won at the U.S. trials with a time of 21.94 sec., and two four-person relays, the 4 X 100 m and the 4 X 400 m. Jones hasn't competed much at 400m--the way meets are arranged, it's hard to fit in. But her one 400m this year produced the second fastest time in the world. Too bad she doesn't practice. Not that she lacks for activity. If she is to claim gold in all five events, she'll have...
Thorpe's character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...
Brunet is hedging her bets in a way, opting to add the K-2, or two-person kayaking, challenge by teaming with Karen Furneaux, 23, an Olympic rookie. "It's the first time for me sharing anything," says Brunet of the partnership. "I've never before had to share victory. It's nice to share good moments. This is something I've found out very late...
Movie producers are trashed as psychotic and nasty. Talent agents' misdeeds and duplicities are dissected and mocked. Rumors are gleefully spread about which studio executives are about to be sacked. Ho hum. It's just another scurrilous day on ifilmpro.com's "Who Is the Most Insane Person in the Biz?" message board...
...ensure that a casket is airtight. The flight attendants' site on Insidetheweb.com has the feel of a late-night, rear-of-the-plane gabfest, on topics like whether it's O.K. to accept a $100 tip from a passenger (consensus: no) to an attendant's gripping first-person account of her first emergency landing. ("As I strapped myself into my jumpseat, I remember thinking that I was so glad that I had called my boyfriend earlier in the evening just to tell him that I love...