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...felt good. To immerse oneself in this perfect snow-globe universe of skis and skates and sleds, finish lines and stopwatches and scorecards, was to live in a smaller, more manageable world than had seemed possible before the torch was lit, in this winter of Afghanistan and Enron...
...year's Games with a fervor I didn't quite expect: every night, dependably and wonderfully, they deliver small, verifiable results. There's suspense first, of course, but it's tolerable suspense--nothing like waiting for Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill, but only for a while...
...should the astonishing recent advances in technique be discounted. "Cheating is a lot more sophisticated now than in the old days," marvels one grizzled sleazeball. "Back then a suitcase full of cash and a job for somebody's idiot nephew could get your city the Olympics. Nowadays, thanks to Enron and the 2000 Florida voting and whatnot, everybody's on the case all the time. You're smart, or you're toast. For instance, everybody knows that a certain nation entered in these games has a cross-country skier-tripping coach who works by two-way radio...
...Enron Mess...
...perplexed that the Enron situation is considered a scandal [THE ENRON SPILLOVER, Feb. 4]. It seems to me this is the epitome of Republican philosophy and policy: remove resources from the worker bees of America as quickly and efficiently as possible and concentrate them in the assets of the wealthy. The Enron collapse just continues what deficit spending and tax breaks for the wealthy have done to widen the income gap since the 1980s. PAMELA MULLER St. Petersburg...