Word: timorously
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...debate two, Gore did not boast and Bush didn't coast. The Governor even brought up East Timor voluntarily--a country whose inhabitants a few months ago he called Timorians--successfully deploying knowledge of the one to suggest knowledge of the whole. For his part, Gore had to forgo his brute-force game and, like a player coached out of a bad backhand but without time to develop a new one, he was left with no swing at all. He agreed with Bush on just about everything, including the Golden Rule, and committed no new anecdotal crimes...
...little to boost Gore's prospects. Bush has recovered from his early stumbles. In the second debate, when Lehrer pressed both candidates on how the U.S. should conduct itself in the world, Bush managed to sound credible when discussing global hot spots like the Middle East, Russia and East Timor...
...snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when the home team appeared - good reasons all. The Americans are always an unruly, larriken lot, and of course Aussies love a gang...
...Desmond Tutu are so celebrated in the U.S. that it can be easy to forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer Eddie Adams add power to the text. An exhibit of the photos...
...athletes: from the lone representative of Brunei Darussalam to the 628-strong Australian team. Relaxed in their ocher-colored car coats and slinging toy kangaroos into the crowd, the Australians basked in the warmest applause. But beyond the nationalism there was much goodwill - toward the four athletes from East Timor, parading for the first time since their homeland's independence, as were teams from Eritrea, Palau and Micronesia. Even more stirring was the standing ovation given to the North and South Korean athletes, who, although they will compete separately, marched together in support of reunification. After all, said a North...