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...engaged to ski technician John Mulligan - though she thinks she skis better "when I'm not in love" - she will try in Salt Lake City to cap her career with a gold in the downhill, her signature event. After failing to finish in the top 30 at last week's World Cup race in Cortina, Italy, she won't have the chance to duplicate her surprise gold medal performance in the super-G at the '98 Nagano Games...
...plenty of edge, both on and off the slopes. "Some of the European skiers are already shooting for second place," she says, "because they know that's as good as they're going to do, there's going to be an American in front of them taking the gold." Right. And shaking, like after a car crash...
...suggestions that he'd won only because of Maier's absence. "I don't let myself be put under any pressure from anyone," he said. "I just do my thing. Let's see what comes of it." What comes of it could be a handful of long sought-after gold medals...
...many blacks either avoid the word entirely or permit its use within their community as a synonym for "soul brother." They bristle when whites use it, even in jest. But, as Kennedy observes, these long-established rules are changing because record and TV companies have discovered that there's gold in racial slurs. Thanks to gangsta rap and the vulgar comic routines of a generation of Richard Pryor wannabes, the N word is blasted onto the airwaves with such mind-numbing frequency that even white people believe they have permission to mimic the way blacks...
...with his solid reviews in Ali helping cement his reputation as a Serious Actor, Foxx is dreaming large. "If I were to ever win an Oscar," he says, "I'd have a gold chain with the Oscar on my neck everywhere I went...