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...torn and tattered flag rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York caused the first wrangle of the Salt Lake City Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee suggested that the banner should lead the American team into the stadium but found itself under pressure from the I.O.C., which feared that such a gesture could set an undesirable precedent. Later recognizing the exceptional emotion that Americans still attach to the battered symbol, the I.O.C. agreed to allow the Stars and Stripes to be carried in the Opening Ceremony by an honor guard of eight American athletes representing different...
...they might file suit for that reason alone, even if they never get a dime. And for other families, there is enormous value in no lawsuits at all. David Gordenstein lost his wife, Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, on American Flight 11. "Am I sad? I've had my heart torn out," he says. But he would rather devote his life to raising his two young daughters than pursuing a lawsuit. He will probably file a claim with the federal fund, which he acknowledges is not perfect. "I am proud of what my country tried to do. I think the intention...
...definition, winter sport is a dangerous business. Participants have to perform on a treacherous surface of ice or snow often at frightening speeds. In summer sports, just about the worst that can happen to an athlete is a pulled muscle or a torn ligament. In winter, the stakes are higher. Over the past dozen years five top-flight skiers have died pursuing their chosen sport, with dozens of others suffering career-threatening injuries. But still they race...
Craig was astonished by the fact that, in a village torn between the Good Men and the Catholic Church, Lizier had developed her own belief system, quite different from those of the establishment and the heretics. Lizier took pleasure in nature and her own body and found no sin in them. In the same way, through her fictional rendering of the lives of Lizier and the people of Montaillou, Craig marks an emphatic (c), neither of the above, on my Theology quiz...
...sitting at Communist Party headquarters in Hanoi beneath a huge bronze bas relief of Ho. And that straight answer says a lot about Manh and what he wants to bring to his struggling land. For more than a decade, Vietnam has had the potential to break with its war-torn, poverty-ridden past and become Asia's newest tiger economy. Transparency, or the lack of it, has held Vietnam back. The country is ruled by a secretive group of former revolutionaries who have trouble understanding the notions of law and order so integral to germinating a market economy. Manh, though...