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There go the rich and famous, whooshing down manicured slopes in their designer parka-and-pants outfits and wearing $600 skis. Where can this be but Aspen or Vail? On second glance, it is neither of those places. Since the two most famous Colorado resorts have become insufferably chic, members of the smart set are seeking seclusion and pampering at Deer Valley, a 10-year-old resort in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. So far, this unspeakably well-groomed complex has entertained the likes of Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner and Cheryl Tiegs...
Deer Valley is more like a grand hotel than a ski resort. When guests arrive at the parking lot, they are greeted by valets, who carry skis to racks at the base lodges. Lift-line ticket sales are limited to 5,000 a day in order to limit waiting times to five minutes. The resort charges accordingly. Accommodations at the Stein Eriksen Lodge range from $265 to $1,400 a night...
Thus the world saw, in a few astonishing days, two examples of the resort to force that were, in many ways, at opposite ends of the moral spectrum. If there is such a thing as a just war, President Bush launched one against Saddam. The Iraqi dictator confirmed the worst that Bush had said of him by raining down ballistic missiles on the civilian population of Israel, a nation totally uninvolved in the dispute over Kuwait -- and one with which Saddam's Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, had said only a week earlier Iraq has "no bilateral dispute...
...most basic refutation to the idea of a new world order was what happened in the air and on the ground in the Middle East last week. The resort to force -- no matter how necessary under the circumstances -- was an admission that the preferred and defining methods for making a better world had failed. Talk of a pax Americana was not just premature but out of place. There was plenty of Americana but too little pax. It was the same old world last week, and a not very orderly one at that...
...course, if Dry has one of his typical 25-for-28, 456-yard efforts, Coach Filling may not have to resort to the Dryrooski to crush Budweiser's dreams of a three-peat...