Word: kerrigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COVER: Photomontage: Kerrigan photograph for TIME by Neal Preston--Outline; Harding photograph by Tom Treick -- The Oregonian/Sygma...
...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 to be played out in an international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy to convict the Menendez brothers; Buffalo is unlikely to ever get another chance to beat...
...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 of the low-road entertainment mongers and the sticklers for due process coincide. Otherwise, the ending would have to play out in parallel universes -- Kerrigan at Lillehammer, on Saturday Night Live and in Reebok ads; Harding on Inside Edition, the carpet of the .S.O.C. and in No Excuses jeans ads. Worse yet, the finale could be relegated to a made-for-cable movie...
...skate will send a loud and clear message that crime doesn't pay. If Harding loses, her victim is transported to the ether of celebrity as a plucky survivor of a vicious assault who goes on to bring back the gold for her country. In fact, human nature favors Kerrigan: Olympic judges, like Supreme Court Justices, read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could be devised than...
...Olympic Committee struck a deal that allows Tonya Harding to compete in the Winter Games. In exchange, she will drop a $25 million lawsuit. However, Harding could still be disciplined after the Games in connection with the attack on Nancy Kerrigan...