Word: shiva
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Carole sat shiva with the family. She also e-mailed Leslie, who lives far away on the other side of the country, in Massachusetts. No one had seen Leslie in a long time, and she had only been at the 25th reunion for a day. The way Carole explains it, Leslie was the sanest of them all in adulthood: one career, a straight line. She’d been a professor for years...
...expressed concern about his own safety. After several adjustments were made--the starts were pushed farther down the track, and a protective wall was added to the sharp final turn--competition went on as planned. In tribute to Kumaritashvili, lugers wore black stripes on their helmets. Says Shiva Keshavan, a luge athlete from India: "Nodar will always be with...
...pole on the track's final turn during a practice run, Olympic officials considered postponing or even canceling the event. But the athletes themselves met with each other last Friday and urged organizers to push forward. "We thought it was a way to show that life goes on," says Shiva K.P. Keshavan from India, who finished in 29th place of 39 competitors. "But Nodar will never be forgotten." Until Friday, the Whistler track was proudly marketed as the fastest in the world, as sleds approached 100 m.p.h. (169 km/h). However, in the days leading up to the tragedy, about...