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...just four years ago, The Winter Olympics were a setting for scandal and controversy and tabloid headlines, all Nancy and Tonya, catty remarks and vainglorious ambition. What a difference an Olympiad makes. Now, in a near rustic city in Japan, the Games beckon once again as a refuge from the snares of the world, where the tawdry can be banished (alas, except for commercial logos) and where the most compelling mysteries involve the intricacies of quad jumps, clap skates, luge weight and curling. For Nagano is robed in that symbol of purity: snow, unsullied and ready for the pursuit...
...meditation and Zen-like attitudes. Hers is a far cry from the old days of the downhill, when some of the top guns, notably the men, would get so psyched up they'd walk into the woods to throw up before a race. Picabo, by contrast, can be seen near the starting gate with headphones on, and some dance music by Jamiroquai piping into her nervous system, her limbs swinging through a warmup. While she admits that a few things in life do scare her--including the dark, which she fends off with a night-light--going fast is rarely...
...active riders to have won both racing and freestyle titles, though she now focuses her efforts solely on the halfpipe. One of the sport's true female pioneers, Taggart has triple the contest experience of her competitors and is only getting better as the Games draw near...
...example: What exactly happened in Los Angeles on the night of March 3, 1991, near the corner of Foothill and Osborne? The famous videotape showed a cluster of police savagely and gratuitously beating a black man named Rodney King. The scene replayed indelibly on television sets around the world. Did the videotape show the truth? Whose truth? All of it? Enough...
...buildings burned. During the riots, another videotape was made, this time from a police helicopter, showing a cement truck driver named Reginald Denny, a white man, being dragged from his cab by young blacks, who kicked him and smashed him in the head with a brick until he lay near death. Now each side had evidence to validate its stereotypic myths...