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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...
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...
...definitely have to shoot a lot," she added. "We can skate faster [than Northeastern] and we just have to beat them to the puck. We have to connect a little bit better and just play well...
...Tony Kent Arena and Kerrigan's hotel-room number in Detroit and of participating in a Jan. 10 meeting between Gillooly and Eckardt at which an alibi was concocted. He said he had "no doubt" about Harding's guilt and suggested that it would be "unconscionable" for Harding to skate at the Olympics. The next day the state bar was flooded with calls questioning whether Hoevet had violated Oregon's code of professional conduct, which states, "A lawyer shall not make an extra-judicial statement . . . by means of public communications." At least seven people have filed formal complaints against Hoevet...