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...Well, not I exactly. We are about to circumambulate the Kaaba. The crowd of pilgrims is an utter crush, completely filling the mosque. Most are waiting to do their rounds, others hang about, talking, praying, sleeping. Male pilgrims are dressed identically in an ihram, two pieces of unstitched, seamless white cloth, one wrapped around the waist, the other across the chest and right shoulder. It is meant to dissolve the differences between rich and poor - though the first piece is usually secured by a money belt, and some are definitely weightier than others - while also giving a sense of mortality...
...details of our private affairs to anyone who will listen, including perfect strangers. These are the people who when standing in front of you in the dining hall will raise their voices just enough to make sure that you, their anonymous audience, hear every juicy tidbit about their latest crush. Some of us are so-called “good listeners,”—people who thrive on attempting to sort others’ dirty laundry. These are the amateur psychoanalysts who know everybody’s dirt, and to whom people flock for advice. Others...
...this a member of 'N Sync, early in town for the group's Olympic gig next Saturday? The scene had all the requisite elements of a boy band's arrival: fans professing their undying love; a crush of journalists recording the star's every move; desperate autograph seekers (with minders restraining the most persistent of them); and a police escort to help the hero escape the crush...
...rational thought I have for a good ten Minutes. Before I can catch a breath, I'm smashed up against the metal barrier with eight ski-jacketed arms and elbows waving microphones and tape recorders reaching past me to get to Casey. I try to get away from the crush, which you'd think would make other people happy since it would provide a new front-row audience with FitzRandolph, but I can't leave move. In a daze, it occurs to me that I am now being more intimate with 20 total strangers than I would be except after...
...help thinking that perhaps it's rather encouraging that so many reporters want a piece of the action surrounding these largely ignored sports - action usually reserved for multimillionaire superstars of basketball, football and baseball. In the end, despite scaring the heck out of diminutive reporters like myself, the crush of attention focused ever so briefly on these athletes is a very good thing, turning focus away from the hyper-commercial and tightly controlled world of the money sports, and toward Olympians who may very well have just one moment when they are the best interview in town...