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...first week of the Olympics. Bode Miller proved better on the dance floor than the slopes, finishing a disappointing fifth in the downhill, getting disqualified in the combined after taking the lead and not finishing the super-G. Lindsey Kildow wishboned her skis during a terrifying practice-run crash in the women's downhill and was air-lifted to a hospital in Torino. Miraculously, she raced two days later but finished eighth. Only the surprise winner of the combined slalom-downhill event, Ted Ligety, sparked the U.S. ski team, which had labeled itself "Best in the World." Don't tell...
Wescott, whose dramatic win introduced the crash-and-burn world of snowboard cross to transfixed TV audiences, is the team's dad--and brain. The son of a college professor, Wescott devours lefty linguist Noam Chomsky, not the typical snowboarder fare. Wescott doesn't get away clean from the snowboarding stereotype. "He's so not a dude," says his sister, Sarah, 32. But "he can party with the best of them...
...that withholding creates its own all-or-nothing melodrama. That applies again this year, when some pretty intriguing head-to-head races are shaping up. Can Crash, the quintessential L.A. indie drama, make a stretch run to overtake the early favorite, Brokeback Mountain? Can Hollywood's most dapper leading man, George Clooney, beat out schlumpy but likable Paul Giamatti? Is dark horse Felicity Huffman the one to knock off everyone's darling, Reese Witherspoon? Will anyone catch Philip Seymour Hoffman...
...three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees have Harvard degrees, which Maats says grants them “instant credibility.” For a mere $75 an hour, a student...
...ranked World Cup downhill skier, Kildow felt some trepidation midway down the run near the crash point, but gained speed on the bottom portion to crack the top 10. "I just wanted to know that I could have done it," she said. "I guess I thought that the result would have been a lot better, but I'm just happy to have raced...