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...Olympic Committee had accepted cash, gifts and college tuition for their children amounting to more than $1 million in advance of awarding the Winter Games to Salt Lake--following an ugly precedent set by other winning cities. Tom Welch, a former president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and Dave Johnson, a former senior vice president, were indicted on federal charges, including bribery and fraud. The charges were dismissed last year, but the Justice Department last month appealed the dismissal. All along, the Mormon church has tried to keep the scandal at arm's length--Hinckley says he had instructed...
...Olympic Committee had accepted cash, gifts and college tuition for their children amounting to more than $1 million in advance of awarding the Winter Games to Salt Lake-following an ugly precedent set by other winning cities. Tom Welch, a former president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and Dave Johnson, a former senior vice president, were indicted on federal charges, including bribery and fraud. The charges were dismissed last year, but the Justice Department last month appealed the dismissal. All along, the Mormon church has tried to keep the scandal at arm's length-Hinckley says he had instructed...
...Daunting? Yes. Doable? Certainly. So say architects and building security experts Dave Thompson and Norm Garden, vice presidents at RTKL, an architecture and engineering firm. Garden and Thompson know Olympic-size security requirements; Garden was involved in creating the master plan for the Beijing Olympic proposal and Thompson's security clients have included the Department of Defense and various intelligence agencies. TIME.com spoke with both men about the particular challenges of Salt Lake City and the responsibilities of everyone who's planning to attend these Games...
...Dave Thompson: The most important thing is to control who gets in. At the Olympics, you've got a lot of people, and a basic tenet of security is to keep control over who gets close to the venues - and that includes trucks making deliveries and buses coming in and out of restricted areas...
...Harvard men’s basketball team is thankful that Dave Klatsky is no Kyle Wente...