Word: questioner
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...previous Olympics had seen such a rash of 11th-hour banishments and "withdrawals"; China trimmed its roster by no fewer than 27 athletes who might have proved an embarrassment by testing positive in Sydney. Every Olympic press conference I went to opened with a drug question or six, and finally Aussie swim coach Don Talbot had had his fill. "I don't know if it's cast a cloud over these Games," he barked. "Look, you keep trying to bring the drug issue up. We're not going to answer! We're trying to get ready here." Things were getting...
...McDonald's!" Greene, for all his shoulder rolling and Ali-style prognosticating, is a funny, sweet young man, and very self-aware. Before his race he cracked jokes, cracked his gum, and seemed relaxed - but he always does, and never is. "Do I get nervous?" he said, repeating the question. He looked at me, and smiled. "Of course I get nervous. I don't show it, but I'm nervous right now. This is the biggest stage I've been on, and I want Maurice Greene to put on the best performance ever seen...
...about the idea that sports changes things any more than poetry or fiction can do, but this is quite like when Jackie Robinson played major league baseball in America, and if any sports event can change things, this one has a chance. It represents the strongest putting of the question to Australia by an Aboriginal in years. It makes us ask: If it's okay for Cathy Freeman to be an Aboriginal because she wins, why is it not OK for someone else to be an Aboriginal when he says, 'This is my land,' or 'My children are dying...
...question is not whether the oil release is a pander but whether the pander is a good one or bad one--an effective policy that also wins votes or just a hollow gesture. The answer depends on whether this is a true oil emergency--and whether 30 million bbl. will help solve...
While Bush initially proposed that two of the debates should take place on talk shows rather than in the more traditional formats he eventually agreed to, they will still provide the candidates plenty of opportunity to mix it up. Next week, for instance, each question will be followed by an answer, a rebuttal and then a loosely structured period of back-and-forth. Some questions could be discussed for more than six minutes. That's an eternity by presidential-debate standards. The candidates will be situated more informally, seated at a table, for their meeting in Winston-Salem...