Word: lakes
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Between 1992 and 1998, the Salt Lake committee parceled out nearly $400,000 in scholarship money and other financial aid to 13 students. Conveniently, six of the recipients were related to I.O.C. members. Salt Lake committee tax reports, however, made no mention of the scholarships. A Utah health-care group donated $28,000 in services, including cosmetic eye surgery, to the I.O.C. cause. And the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the bid panel spent some $20,000 on guns and skis that presumably went to individuals associated with the I.O.C...
...sackcloth and ashes. "Obviously, we did break the rules," says Ken Bullock, an abashed organizer. "The Games are an aphrodisiac. If you want something bad enough, you stretch the boundaries." He points out, however, that the pressure on a bidding city to be hospitable can be intense, and Salt Lake City was hardly the first to gild its welcome mat. "The I.O.C. allowed this sucking up," says Bullock...
Whether or not more wrongdoing is uncovered, the Games will go on--and they will almost certainly be held in Salt Lake City. Even with three years to go, the city is on a tight construction timetable, and it's not feasible to change the location. The 16-day extravaganza, expected to cost $1.5 billion, will be the most expensive Winter Games ever. Sponsors and broadcasters are expected to shoulder $1.1 billion of the cost, but Games promoters still have to raise $250 million from corporations. So far, none of the sponsors--among them Coca-Cola, IBM and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...Reported by Richard Woodbury/Salt Lake City, Melissa August/Washington and Robert Kroon/Geneva
...seven-part series airing on Public Radio International; a 36-song, two-CD sound track (Smithsonian Folkways); and a 352-page companion book (St. Martin's). But the purpose of each is singularly focused: to document the contemporary musical traditions that thrive on the banks of the Mississippi, from Lake Itasca, the river's source, to where the waters empty into the Gulf of Mexico...