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...attention on this story even when it required a passing knowledge of the bylaws of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have to suffer? A country lives by its myths, and seldom has there been such an opportunity for an epic to be played out in an international arena as this skate-off between Harding and Kerrigan at the Winter Games. Lately, the public has been denied closure in other morality tales: neither Bobbitt will serve time; California may never be able to cobble together a jury sufficiently unaffected by victim empathy to convict the Menendez brothers; Buffalo is unlikely to ever...
Letting Tonya skate will send a loud and clear message that crime doesn't pay. If Harding loses, her victim is transported to the ether of celebrity as a plucky survivor of a vicious assault who goes on to bring back the gold for her country. In fact, human nature favors Kerrigan: Olympic judges, like Supreme Court Justices, read the election returns, and Kerrigan, the goddess of good, already enjoys a significant edge over Harding, the consort of thugs. On the other hand, if Kerrigan falls and Harding triple-Axels her way to victory, then what crueler punishment could...
Schrobsdorff may not have conquered the weather, but she is the nerve center for nearly everything else for our 11-person team in Lillehammer. She doesn't ski or skate, and she majored in English at Barnard before joining TIME's New York City news desk a decade ago. But she has covered Olympics both chilly (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992) and steamy (Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers...
...this year all that gauze and grace will not conceal the fact that skating has been marred by the spectacle -- part crime show, part soap opera -- of Tonya Harding, her spooky husband and seedy associates all blaming one another for last month's attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan. Harding is determined to skate -- and by braving the court with her case has made sure that the U.S. team remains Harding and Kerrigan. Now, sports officials are looking for ways to have the star-crossed duo practice separately until the women's figure-skating competition begins next week. Otherwise...
Under the settlement adopted last weekend, Harding dropped her lawsuit and the U.S.O.C. agreed to allow her to skate in the Olympics next week. The Committee also canceled an administrative hearing which had been called for the purpose of questioning Harding about the attack...