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...Early on Tuesday morning, just hours after the gold medal had gone to the Russians, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, the nine judges of the pairs event and two referees convened in a windowless basement room of the Salt Lake Ice Center. The door was sealed with thick tape that kept prying reporters from eavesdropping on the deliberations. It also prevented them from hearing the weeping of the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne. Ron Pfenning is the U.S. referee who would bring Le Gougne's accusations to Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union. Last week he told...
...five athletes with Harvard ties playing hockey in Salt Lake City, only A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99 had scored an Olympic goal in Nagano. Now all five have scored in this year’s Olympics...
...International Olympic Committee would rather it all resolved as quickly as possible, and will do its best to get Salt Lake talking about something else now that everybody's got a gold. The question, though, is whether Marie Reine Le Gougne will be the catalyst for an overhaul of what cynics call "boxing on skates." Even if we never hear from Le Gougne herself, she has reminded us that figure skating has been tainted by backroom dealing, pre-judging by judges and other vices one might expect from a highly popular "sport" that has few inherently objective measures...
...Church of the Latter Day Saints. Utah has beautiful mountains for skiing and is 63 percent Mormon. So TV viewers everywhere, or at least TV viewers captivated by the new sport of “skeleton” racing, have found not only top-notch winter athletes in Salt Lake City, but also glimpse at the culture of the clean-living, fast-growing Mormon religion. This juxtaposition of Mormonism, a relatively unassimilated religion in America, and the diverse ranks of Olympic competitors and viewers, is a familiar one for the Mormons at Harvard who deal with clashing cultures every...
Electric mixer combines flour, yeast, salt, sugar, water and oil to make a 50-pound mass of dough. On a busy Friday or Saturday night, Noch’s goes through two such batches.The mixture is separated into four-pound loaves and placed in a warm area of the kitchen to settle.The first kneading occurs anytime from one to 10 hours after the dough is mixed. The four-pound loaf is massaged and stretched slightly, then left to sit until pizza supply is running low.During the second kneading, the dough is stretched across a large Sicilian pan, leaving excess dough...