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Harding is accused of collaborating in planning an attack last month which left Olympic rival Nancy Kerrigan severly injured before the American team trials...
...true, according to other factions in theHarvard Harding-Kerrigan debate...
...competition by underhanded means--is by no means extraordinary. In North America's other on-ice sport, certain players are retained specifically for this purpose, and these "enforcers" perform to the delight of the same crowds that are now so sanctimoniously clucking their tongues over the Harding-Kerrigan plot...
Even more, the case fits into an almost satisfyingly easy moral mold; the dissipative Harding, the embittered loser in the last Olympiad, and the exalted Kerrigan, the winner, could just as easily be the Wicked Witch and Snow White. The public's fascination with the case is not unlike the rapt attention that little children pay to morally simplistic fairy tales...
...fairy tale. It is a completely predictable product of a violent society that rewards the end of success without paying much attention to the means. Harding was portrayed as somehow morally inferior even before any incriminating evidence came to light, simply because she hadn't succeeded while the fallen Kerrigan had. When a society rewards winning with such extravagance, it is no wonder that some will try to buy it any price...