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...apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable--but not lavish--quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck--a vestigial remnant of Catholicism--and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash. When he is not working, Springsteen takes life easy and does not worry about it. "I'm not a planning-type...
Talk about a story with legs. Back in February, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games were rocked by allegations that Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier had been robbed of their rightful gold medal. Both pairs were eventually given gold, but by then the scandal had outraged the world - Oh, the shock of it! Dirty dealings in figure skating! Eventually, interest waned, until this week's exciting tidbit emerged: the Russian mob may have been behind the Olympic scandal from the start. So for resurrecting this tale of ignominy, our person of the week is Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov...
...Thursday, Italian officials announced the arrest of Tokhtakhounov, a suspected Russian mobster, on U.S. conspiracy charges filed in Manhattan federal court. It seems that Tokhtahkounov, who denies any wrongdoing, may have been at the heart of the scheme to award figure skating gold to the Russian pair, rather than the Canadians, employing French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne to cast the deciding ballot. A day after the pairs medals were awarded, Le Gougne admitted to buckling under pressure to vote for the Russian pair in exchange for first-place votes for the French ice dancing team. Although she later rescinded...
...favor of the French ice dancing pair in exchange for a visa to return to France. Russian officials call the charges of mafia involvement "fantastic," telling the Associated Press they wouldn't be surprised if the scenario had been manufactured "in Hollywood" to retroactively justify giving two gold medals in the pairs event. Meanwhile, Italian investigators say they nabbed Tokhtakhounov during an organized-crime investigation; they happened to have tapped his phone in February and recorded several conversations with a French man, during which Tokhtakhounov made repeated references to the figure skating competition, and to six skating judges. (The names...
...without blowing big bucks on superstars. Why were they spared the expense? Because the founder and chairman of Li Ning Sports, champion gymnast Li Ning, is also the company's chief spokesman. Li became a national hero to millions of Chinese after he won six medals?three of them gold?at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. It's as if Michael Jordan had his own sneaker company instead of being a shoe tree for Nike...