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When actual storm clouds loom on the horizon--terrorism, recession, government scandal--people long for a tempest in a teapot. That's just what the skating brouhaha provided, and it's what the Games provide as a whole. The fog of war, which we hear so much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism...
...probably won’t. In his installation speech, Summers gave every indication that the sciences were first on his to do list and loom large on his radar screen. Summers, a social scientist, may want someone with a hard science background to add depth to his proposals. If science-related initiatives are to be the cornerstone of the Summers administration, it would make sense for him to appoint a dean from the science section of the faculty...
...best teams in the EIWA—and Princeton, as well as Boston College. This week, the team will be working on its shot defense and scoring earlier in the match, in preparation not only for the upcoming weekend, but also for the end-of-season tournaments that loom even larger than Phil’s shadow...
Salt Lake City is thousands of miles from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but the shadows of those crumbled buildings will nevertheless loom large over the Winter Games. This week, Attorney General John Ashcroft acknowledged unprecedented safety concerns by assigning still more federal officers to an already massive law enforcement presence...
...your mud-spattered jalopy for a hardy Tibetan pony that can better fare the torturous 14-km trek to Luorong Pasture. From there the view of the Konkaling range is breathtaking. Farther along, the three sacred peaks of Chenrezig, Chanadorje and Jambeyang?named after a trinity of Tibetan deities?loom over the landscape. If the light is just right, Jambeyang resembles a perfect pyramid: a Shangri-la setting waiting for its utopian kingdom...