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...also an almost absurdly friendly place, and the locals - at this point at least - are patient and welcoming to the swarms of gawking visitors. There has been blanket coverage of even the most minute detail, for example, the trek of the Olympic torch as it winds its way across the country. Even before the opening day, the Olympic Park - where most of the important venues are located - was overrun with thousands of visitors, just regular Australians wallowing it being the center of the world sporting universe. On Thursday night, 90,000 people showed up to watch the dress rehearsal...
When the Olympic torch bobs up the Opera House steps on Games eve, the two will blur even more. Schofield, for one, doesn't see why the Olympic ideals of "faster, higher, stronger" can't also apply to the arts: "We can measure our performance against the world's best practice, our companies against other companies, just as athletes measure themselves against competitors from other countries." Let the arts begin...
...motorcade stopped at a McDonald's, where POTUS ordered a chicken sandwich, and vegetarian Chelsea had an ice-cream cone), and he'll be campaigning for Gore in the fall, but as symbolism, it doesn't get much better than this (although we were still hoping for a real torch). As an added touch to emphasize that the transition had been made, the White House press plane broke down this afternoon (Gore's press plane had earlier suffered mechanical woes). But Monroe offers two other pieces of symbolism for the pundits to ponder. One, it's the home...
...come a long way from Prescott and Dorothy of Greenwich, but the path looked a lot like a huge circle on the morning of his inauguration in 1995. His dad passed the family torch to his firstborn, presenting W. with a pair of cufflinks that his own father Prescott had given him when he went off to war. He had called them "my most prized possession." "At first I didn't think about the continuity, the grandfather part," Bush says, recalling that busy, glorious day. "The main thing I thought was that it was from my dad. He was saying...
...performance was a drama of arrival - a presidential bar mitzvah. The son took over. The torch passed. That was a grown man addressing the convention in Philadelphia - speaking with the seasoned authority of a life that is manifestly his own. That is an odd thing to say of someone in his mid-50s, perhaps, but you know the Baby Boomers. There have been detours and delays...