Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...right. Sydney was buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all that week. The "Today Show" and other countries' Today Shows set up by the Opera House to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Overhead, Qantas jets all in a row descended toward the airport at Botany Bay. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo-op spots in the botanical garden drew queues. Gowings started moving Akubras briskly, and as the Opening Ceremonies got nearer and nearer, the Aussies perked up noticeably. That sunny...
Wanna make George W. Bush smirk? Tell him he's going to get pasted in the presidential debates. Compared with the confident front runner who resisted rote practice sessions before all those primary debates last winter, Bush, now the self-declared underdog, has been drilling like an Olympic athlete for the three debates he faces on Oct. 3, 11 and 17. He has been practicing since May at his ranch, the Governor's mansion and other locations in Austin. Some sessions have included a table and podium and an Al Gore, played by New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. A dress...
...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
...Harvard student or graduate has competed in every modern summer games and nearly every winter games...
Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments...