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...goes to Salt Lake City, where he will line up for the 15-km classical race alongside some of his skiing heroes. He's looking forward to meeting World Cup leader Per Elofsson of Sweden, who is a gold-medal threat at every distance. And he wants to talk to the Italians; one of Menyoli's favorite cross-country moments was the finish of the Lillehammer men's relay, when Italy shocked the Norwegians at the line, winning by no more than...
...establish his own first and became the first person to win a World Cup race from the lowly start position of 64th out of the gate. Not bad for a couple of kids from a country with little tradition in skiing. If both perform to their undoubted ability in Salt Lake City they could also become the first Croatians to win Winter Olympic medals...
...Mormons have always felt they are an oppressed minority in the state; Mormons feel they are an oppressed minority in the country," says Michael Zimmerman, a Salt Lake lawyer who served on Utah's Supreme Court for 16 years. "Both groups' self-images are true and false; both sides are deluding themselves." Like many long-term residents, Zimmerman sees many changes in Utah but thinks the relations between Mormons and non-Mormons remain more or less the same: "The way Utah is changing is through urbanization, rather than by the Mormons being more inclusive." A recent poll for the Salt...
...social relations are evolving slowly, urbanization is happening in a hurry. Some 1.7 million people now live on the Wasatch Front, an almost uninterrupted suburban strip along the I-15 highway from Ogden through Salt Lake down to Provo. The entire valley often has a blanket of brown air hanging over it, the legacy of years of unchecked growth. Now the consensus on unlimited growth is being challenged-from within the state...
...When Stephen Goldsmith was 17, he won a high school oratory contest with a speech on "Why I want to be a black transsexual." It was an act of defiance. Goldsmith, who is Jewish, remembers being roughed up almost every week on the way home from school in Salt Lake City when his classmates would turn off to go to the nearby Mormon church and he would continue on straight to go home. Goldsmith, now 47, is the city planner for Salt Lake City, hired by the controversial new mayor, Rocky Anderson, to revitalize the downtown area, block strip-mall...