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And over everything has loomed the sorry spectacle of Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely...
The chilly tale is still unfolding, but that hasn't stopped publishers from competing in an Olympian race to make quickie books -- and bucks -- from the saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. No fewer than six paperbacks have been zooming to press: four on the presumed heroine (sample title...
That's Tonya Harding speaking on Inside Edition, and praise be the gods of Olympus, Harding will get at least within hugging range of her rival and alleged victim, Nancy Kerrigan. This is not because Harding shouldn't be punished. If she participated in the plot to injure Kerrigan, neither...
But why should the rest of us, who have focused feverish attention on this story even when it required a passing knowledge of the bylaws of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have to suffer? A country lives by its myths, and seldom has there been such an opportunity for an epic...
All who believe in justice should cheer Harding's eleventh-hour lawsuit, which has taken her fate out of the hasty hands of the star-chamber U.S.O.C. and put it into the slow-as-molasses legal system with all its constitutional safeguards. This is a rare moment when the interests...