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...routine downhill race in the final season of a career that had already brought two world championships, broke her neck last month and died. Conditions were unquestionably risky. The timer pole that she hit was controversially sited. And Maier, a consummate pro, knew the dangers. But the slope was familiar, and 67 other competitors that day survived uneventfully. Her death emphasized for athletes and audiences alike the inherent risk in the Olympic goal of pushing "faster, higher, stronger" to the limit. It also underscored a hard lesson every competitor learns in death's little precursor, defeat: Luck is more than...
...minute we start drawing lines censoring some speech [perceived as sexual harasment], we'll be on a slippery slope downhill," Silverglate said...
...kinds of behavior that will allow them to pull themselves out. Clinton was brave to talk about the values underlying his recent welfare reform legislation not only because of his own imperfections, but because it is difficult for concerned politicians to address these issues without sliding down the slope of political posturing and rhetoric...
...theater is a cozy space built right inside what used to be the basin of the pool. Old lecture hall seats, minus the fold-up desks, are placed neatly down a slope to the deep end. The entire theatre, including the stage, is elevated about four feet above the pool floor by a system of wooden beams (I peeked under a trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling...
Publishers have barreled down the same cynical, slippery slope. Not so long ago, readers of autobiographies were meant to understand that Sammy Davis or William Paley actually produced his memoir. About a decade ago, the pretense was dropped and ghostwriters' names went onto book jackets; nobody minded. Now comes an extraordinary new stage in this postmodern devolution: works of fiction that the nominal celebrity authors not only didn't write but that publishers and celebrities admit they didn't write...