Word: kerrigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assault on Kerrigan made a kind of crude competitive sense -- a product of ambition, anxiety and greed -- many of the sad stories that led up to the Games seemed, by contrast, altogether senseless. They involved suffering that could bring no one any gain...
...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: The Kerrigan Courage) and two on the suspected villainess (Thin Ice). None have the cooperation of their subjects, and most will be in bookstores well before closing ceremonies in Lillehammer...
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 underdog sympathy nor childhood deprivation, an excessive supply of stepfathers, failure to snag endorsement contracts or other bad breaks in life should keep her from being tried and serving time...
...order to avoid working on his senior thesis on the philosophical foundations of punishment in modern democratic theory, Jesse M. Furman '94 says he allowed the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan skating drama to captivate his attention...
...would also make a wonderfully terrible made-for-TV movie, one to rival "The Amy Fisher Story." (Kerrigan's agent already received over 35 offers for such a movie...