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...spend 24 hours here each and every day. In fact, only a few people come close to a third of that number--and we pay most of them. But we still enjoy a close-knit atmosphere here, and anyone is welcome to join. It's been my pleasure to work with the scores of bright and diligent people who have passed through this building over the last four years...
...would have seemed unfathomable. But because Sergei Grinkov was Prince Charming on and off the ice, his fatal heart attack at the age of 28 last week is agonizingly tragic, not just for the millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come to believe in the fairy tale of G and G. "We don't need to have this lesson," 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie said as the snow fell outside Lake Placid's Mirror Lake Inn two days after his friend's death. "This...
...behind these two dorms are small,oft-forgotten Mower and Lionel. Only about 70people live back here in the secluded,relandscaped courtyard. Lionel and Mower suiteshave large common rooms with beautiful woodfloors, and most residents live in singles forpart of the year. Some residents of these intimatedorms say the close-knit experience is nurturingand caring. Others complain that the familyatmosphere can grow a bit too suffocating...
Family background: Close-knit Irish-American clan. Her parents, Maureen and George, live in Longmeadow, Mass. (pop. 15,200) and make it to nearly all of her games, away and at home. They even came to watch the team in Ireland. One brother, Todd, graduated from West Point. Her family is devoutly Catholic, and she still goes to church every week...
...experts have concluded that McVeigh and his associates were eager amateurs. According to one investigator, "If they were truly mad bombers, they could have brought the building down, and they didn't do it." The feds also continue to pursue the theory that McVeigh was a member of a close-knit band of extremists impervious to such traditional law-enforcement tools as infiltration and electronic surveillance...