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Appreciatively. But for all his effort, for all the crowd enthusiasm for all the genius of the move, Moseley ended up fourth - and medal-less - in the competition. In mogul skiing, each of the two tricks, as the jumps are called, account for only 12.5% of the score. "You have to have more than one jump in a race to win," said Janne Lahtela of Finland...
Lahtela won the gold medal with two solid tricks and the fastest speed down the mogul course. Not that he's against flamboyance. "This is show business and you have to please the people," he says. "What Jonny is doing for the sport is good." But you also have to please the judges, the clocks and the calculators who put the scores together. And at that Lahtela proved he is the master...
Grasping the scope of Silvio Berlusconi's conflict-of-interest problem requires a hypothetical analogy. Parallels in the real world simply don't exist. Business media mogul Michael Bloomberg becoming mayor of New York, for example, is small polenta compared to the Italian Prime Minister owning his country's three major private television networks. Imagine instead Bloomberg as majority shareholder in both CBS and NBC making a successful run for the U.S. presidency - and then refusing to give up his stake in the networks once he moved into the White House...
Miller is the triple-threat leader of a U.S. ski team that is crucial to the U.S. Olympic Committee's goal of winning a record 20 medals in these Games. (The tally from Nagano in 1998: 13.) In freestyle skiing's mogul and aerial events--bumps and jumps--wild man Jonny Moseley and the meticulous Eric Bergoust will be defending their respective titles. The mogul team is impressively deep. The women's bumpers, led by Hannah Hardaway and Shannon Bahrke, could sweep, or be swept, in an amazingly talented field led by Norway's Kari Traa. Overall, nothing less than...
Then comes the twist in the tale: just as the mogul is preparing to turn to the equity markets to take his very privately held vision public, it all goes horribly wrong. Creditors come calling, demanding their loans back. Parts of the business lose money. The billionaire faces a financial bloodbath. Riveting stuff, right? Were his empire not under such dire pressure, Leo Kirch might have found something to appreciate in his current predicament...