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...Caribbean-accented clairvoyant still claims a keen ability to see the future. Through tarot cards and grammatically incorrect sentences, Miss Cleo offers her followers “a more informed future” regarding everything from romance to personal health. On her popular infomercial—filmed at an Atlanta radio station—Miss Cleo stuns viewers with cosmic insights into the lives of “random” callers. Among her incredible predictions: that a caller takes things “too personally” and that a woman’s dead mother...
...shadow of Sept. 11 looms large over the Olympics, but this security strategy is based on bitter lessons learned years earlier at the Games in Atlanta, where a pipe bomb exploded in a public square, killing a bystander and injuring more than 100 people. President Clinton responded with a directive placing the Secret Service in charge of security for all major public gatherings, including the Olympics; the directive also tasked the FBI with crisis management--anything from hostage rescues on down--and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with coordinating disaster response. Salt Lake City is the first test of Clinton...
...Olympic torch burned its way from Olympia to Atlanta, then started winding toward Salt Lake, the ground began to warm. The flame will travel 13,500 miles by dogsled and wheelchair and snowshoe and tennis shoe and tugboat. Rudy Giuliani carried it, exempted from the organizing committee's rule against elected officials as torchbearers. Lyz Glick, widow of Jeremy, a hero of Flight 93, carried it, along with 11,498 others, through frigid streets lined with cheering people-and that was just for the torch...
...dollar booty dangled before Olympic bigwigs by Salt Lake officials in hopes of its being picked as host. Once the financial scandals passed-bribery charges against two of the local organizers were dismissed, although the government is appealing-the security nightmare erupted. Ever since the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, law-enforcement agencies have known they would have to reinvent Salt Lake's security. The Atlanta budget was more than doubled for Salt Lake, and after Sept. 11, it increased an additional 25%, to $300 million, for the creation of the Bubble. There will be metal detectors...
...poll for the Salt Lake Tribune found that 3 in 5 Utahans perceive a social, cultural and/or political divide between Mormons and non-Mormons. Even the everyday use of the term non-Mormons exposes the divide-nobody talks about the non- Catholics of Boston or the non-Baptists of Atlanta...