Word: raying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Both candidates have promised to keep talking tax cuts right into November. After that, reality will set in, no matter who wins. No President can wave a wand and change the tax code. As Representative Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican, noted after introducing Bush at a rally in Peoria last week, "Congress will have some say about it." Whether or not Republicans retain their majority, it's unlikely that a sharply divided House and Senate would pass either plan in its current form. But don't tell Bush and Gore that; they're having too much fun jumping hip deep...
...team has a leader, and that's Elise Ray." With those words, the voluble Bela Karolyi, national women's team coordinator and the man behind the Magnificent Seven gold-medal winners of the 1996 Olympic Games, unofficially crowned America's next darling of the mats. It was the verbal equivalent of one of his trademark bear hugs. "I'm not afraid of taking on that role," Ray said last week after earning her ticket to Sydney by accumulating the highest score in four qualifying meets...
...expect a waiflike Nadia Comaneci, or a baby-faced Dominique Moceanu. At 18, Ray is the new face-and body-of women's gymnastics: older, wiser and, in Karolyi's words, "sturdier." Because gymnasts must now be in their 16th year to be able to compete, they're more likely to be heading to college than high school, and physically, they're better representatives of a women's rather than a girls' sport...
...leader of the new class, Ray began her steady ascent to the top of women's gymnastics as the history-making 1996 troupe retired one by one. At last year's world championships, the U.S. team finished a disappointing sixth, but Ray stood out as the highest-placed American gymnast in the individual all-round competition...
Some of those golden oldies are still around, including Dominique Dawes, 23, Ray's training partner and friend who came out of retirement to rejoin the team. The two have been close since the day a reluctant Ray, then 13, was dropped off crying at Hill's Gymnastics in Gaithersburg, Md., where Dawes trained. "She didn't want to leave her friends at her other gym," recalls her coach, Kelli Hill, of Ray's first visit...