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...team gold at the 2003 World Championships when she stepped in as an alternate for injured teammates, Memmel hurt her foot and missed the 2004 Olympic squad. The following year, she claimed the world championship title and then tore her shoulder, which required more than a year of rehab. Coming into Beijing, Memmel was finally healthy, and a contender for the all-around title currently held by American Carly Patterson. She was also a critical part of the U.S. women's effort to battle China for the team gold...
...inaccuracy (he was friends with Jayson Blair at the Times), Carr sets out to "report" his memoir, which is to say he digs up his medical and police files and conducts some 60 interviews with people who knew him then and know him now, from his parents to his rehab counselors to his grownup twin daughters. Wary of painting a distorted self-portrait, he offers up a researched composite instead...
...company last fall as an extension of his real estate--investing business, drafted a letter explaining her situation--an appeal based on the fact that banks, deluged with loans going awry, would like to avoid foreclosure too, since it can cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal and rehab fees to repossess and sell a house. "We wrote a beautiful distress letter together," says Helbert. "We told her story." He was eventually able to talk the bank into reducing Bond's interest rate enough to save her $460 a month. So far, Helbert has helped keep about a third...
...Google search of the phrase "Open Letter to George Lucas" yields 1,120 results. By this measure, Lucas is the recipient of more unsolicited advice than either Britney Spears (652) or Lindsay Lohan (738), two celebrities whose rehab stints and panty-less public appearances suggest they're in more dire need of guidance than a 64-year-old billionaire might...
...Critics called the photo "sexualizing," but that's precisely the wrong verb; teens do not need professional help to become sexual. The sexualization that some parents really fear is off-camera. They see their daughters being pushed down a slope that starts with sexy princesses and ends in rehab. Pop culture, they say, is making kids grow up too fast...