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...felt good. To immerse oneself in this perfect snow-globe universe of skis and skates and sleds, finish lines and stopwatches and scorecards, was to live in a smaller, more manageable world than had seemed possible before the torch was lit, in this winter of Afghanistan and Enron...
...lead to economic setbacks. But not at the Olympics. The rules still count there, even when they are broken or mislaid, as in the figure-skating meltdown. It wasn't a puzzle, this miscarriage of justice--the world saw it clearly and almost simultaneously. One could judge for oneself what had happened and what it meant, and feel confident in that judgment. Ah, certainty! The Russians slipped up, and the Canadians didn't, and any outcome that didn't reflect this fact, however official, simply wasn't legitimate. Not in my house...
...Gates of Janus is presented in two parts. The first contains Brady's take on man's disposition as it relates to crime. To Brady's way of thinking, a killer may lurk within us all: therefore, responding to a murderous impulse may simply be being honest to oneself. In the second part, Brady analyzes the perpetrators of 11 serial killings, including American Ted Bundy, executed in 1989 for murdering three women and suspected of slaying over 30 more, and "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, imprisoned for murdering 13 women in northern England...
...more than a pretty face. Finley combines humility and arrogance in a way that befits someone as prominent as she. Her intimate bantering with the audience was almost too much, and one found oneself fearing that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...
...search for someone to love. It is well known that telnet commands and the Internet hold enlightening background information about many a desired object. Although figuring out someone’s schedule is an understandable means of increasing the “chance” of a rendezvous, changing oneself based on knowledge of that person to become more interesting to him or her erodes a fundamental basis of love—honesty...