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That combination of skill, reputation, experience and unselfishness resulted in a single-season statistical total of near-ridiculous proportions. Mleczko returned from Nagano already holding the career scoring record for Harvard women's hockey players with 143 points in three seasons and, 109 (and counting) later, she has shattered the school single-season and career scoring records previously held by Athletic Director Billy Cleary '56 and Scott Fusco '86 of the Harvard men's hockey team...
...being influential. He is one of the few individuals in the world (perhaps along with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan) who can determine the entire fate of economies with a few choice words. A man so influential and powerful cannot be accepting a $16,000 Samurai sword from Nagano or a $300,000 international peace prize from Olympic affiliates in Seoul. And he cannot do so without expecting the IOC rank-and-file to follow his example. The Barcelona gentleman should do what many have been calling on him to do: step down and accept responsibility for steering...
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH Scandal widens; two I.O.C. members resign. That $14,000 sword from Nagano is hanging over his head...
...which Salt Lake organizers would answer, Baloney. After they'd lost to Anchorage, they were ticked. Now they were seriously, seriously p.o.'d. It wasn't just the end-around with an Olympic museum; it was allegations that Nagano organizers had secured the services of agents who promised to deliver votes for huge fees. In 1994 a citizen's group in Japan filed a criminal complaint against Nagano's mayor and the prefecture's governor for allegedly destroying documents said to detail how $18 million in public and private funds were used in Nagano's bid. The case was thrown...
...just knew Nagano wasn't playing it straight," says Kim Warren, international relations coordinator for the Salt Lake Olympic bid committee in 1990 and '91. "You can't believe the crap they were pulling. We were giving out saltwater taffy and cowboy hats; they were giving out computers." She is harsh on Samaranch. "He had to fly in on a private jet. He had to stay in the presidential suite--it had to be the finest room in the city. There was a particular type of NordicTrak he works out on, so we had to get that piece of equipment...