Maraniss wins a gold medal for his portraits of American stars Wilma Rudolph, Rafer Johnson and Cassius Clay, as well as of the barefoot Ethiopian gold medal marathoner Abebe Bikila.

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And so will many other performances in a Games that sired 15 world records and added illustrious new names to an Olympic Hall of Fame that includes such legends as Jesse Owens, Emil Zatopek, Abebe Bikila and Sebas-tian Coe.

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The trial before Judge Kaplan, set to begin last week, went off the rails on October 6th when the judge declared inadmissible an important (there is some debate over whether he is really crucial) government witness, Hussein Abebe, who was prepared to testify that he sold Ghailani the TNT that killed 224 people.

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