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...corporate sponsorships, no teams, no coaches, no flags, no network TV. A few ragged kids in wet gear cheer the best rider in the world as he slips off, back to the chair lift. The Norwegian packs up his third Mount Baker trophy (a golden roll of duct tape) and prepares to head up to Vancouver, B.C., to consult on a snowboard video game. And then probably home to Oslo, or Jackson Hole, Wyo., or maybe back to Mount Baker. But not to Japan and the first snowboarding events in Olympic history. Haakonsen is boycotting Nagano...
...this is shallow thinking. Why not write a millennium novel? Or duct-tape the millennium to a novel you're already writing? Almost any contemporary fiction, no matter how inconsequential and light-minded, has a fighting chance of taking on weight and portent, perhaps even significance, if shoved 23 months into the future. And if significance is elusive, where's the harm...
...what of the man who may be the world's best freestylist? In the warm confines of Mount Baker's lodge, Terje Haakonsen steps onto a makeshift podium as the Golden Duct Tape is hung around his neck to the cheers of a couple hundred soaking patrons. A crackling stereo plays the Norwegian national anthem. Haakonsen grasps his plastic bag of award loot--gift certificates, lift tickets, stickers and assorted boarding goodies--and hurls it into the writhing mass of teenagers. It isn't Olympic, but it is the golden moment he feels snowboarding is all about...
...March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, handcuffed and bound with duct tape two feeble guards, disarmed the even feebler alarm system and spent the next 81 minutes looting the place. They left with a Vermeer, three works by Rembrandt, five by Degas--altogether, pieces valued at $300 million...
That day--our "feast of Crispian"--won more than a simple victory. We came together as a school, watching and celebrating and relaxing. Ahren Rittershaus wrote "Die Prep" with duct tape on his sweatshirt, and during the second half, we sang TV theme songs from "Different Strokes" to "The Jeffersons...