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...worst things for a newsmagazine is a long drought of news. Almost as challenging is being hit with two stories the same week. Sometimes they pair interestingly in our minds and on our cover: Kerri Strug's golden heart and a two-bit pipe bomber's tarnished mind allow us to grapple with the courage and cowardice of the human soul. But sometimes the stories are eerily disparate, hard to balance in our minds because the relative weight of each seems more difficult to calculate the closer together we bring them...
Until the roar of terrorism early Saturday morning, the defining moment of the Centennial Olympic Games had not been a Cream Team snoozer or a stalled bus or an O.J. Simpson sighting or even one of the inspiring performances by American swimmer Amy Van Dyken. It was Kerri Strug nailing her landing after her Yurchenko 1 1/2, then maintaining her balance on one foot as she pivoted in deference to the two tables of judges. With that, the 87-lb. 18-year-old shoved aside Shaquille O'Neal, Alexander Karelin, Billy Payne and all the big, bad Olympians. There were...
...rate on the back of a hotel-room door, the total on a cash register--numbers that dominated conversations in Atlanta. When the women of the U.S. gymnastics team did something none of their predecessors had ever done, their collective effort, and the spirit of Kerri Strug, transcended metallurgy. They went higher...
...Kerri Strug was known as the quiet member of the U.S. gymnastics team, overshadowed by media darlings like five-time Olympic medal winner Shannon Miller and 14-year-old phenom Dominique Moceanu. Strug, 18, is the sensitive one, the worrier, the one most attuned to the feelings of her teammates. She remembers birthdays and sends notes. When Amanda Borden was going through physical problems, it was Strug who perked her up by sending cards. She's a team player...
...mother Melanie turned to Kerri's father in the stands and said, "Oh, my gosh, something's wrong." Burt Strug tried to reassure her that it was just a charley horse. Strug's coach, Bela Karolyi--a camera-hogging cheerleader throughout the competition--shouted encouragement as Strug tried to shake off the pain. Actually, Strug's score of 9.162 was enough to ensure the U.S. victory, making a second vault unnecessary. But no one on the team knew that. "We had no idea what the score was," said co-head coach Mary Lee Tracy. "What...