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...Evicted from a trailer park in Salt Lake City for being polygamous, Green moved to the Snake Valley desert in 1995. His family lives in a complex of battered trailers surrounded by wrecked cars and used tires. It is 100 miles to the nearest hospital or grocery store and 55 miles to the nearest blacktop road. At the local school, in Partoun, 80% of the children come from polygamous families. Green's 25 children--one boy died in a house fire in 1997--are between 2 1/2 and 14 years old. For study and play they are divided into five...
...these visuals serve what is essentially a greatest-hits compilation of the book itself, from the snake that winks at Harry in the zoo to the owls that swoop through his school, Hogwarts, dropping mail on the magically gifted boys and girls; from Hogwarts' Great Hall with its soaring night-sky ceiling to the cavernous vaults and Munchkin-size goblins working in Gringotts bank (keep an eye out for Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the 1999 Austin Powers sequel); from the wizard's version of chess, in which queens and knights come alive and beat each other senseless...
...French history had both General Charles de Gaulle and his nation at her feet; even Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was smitten. A later, solo trip to India and Pakistan set the stage for Jackie's best performances yet, when she played first the "little girl," terrified of a snake, with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, then the bold horsewoman with Pakistan's leader, Ayub Khan, leaving both men charmed. Back in the U.S., her elegant parties, renovation of the White House and patronage of the arts all helped "lend prestige to her husband's presidency." Once Kennedy regained his footing...
...Such success, of course, begs a question: Are feats of courage, like trips to the crematorium, necessary to nurture champions? Kim still shivers at the memory of a 1994 episode when she and her teammates had to pick up live snakes and bite their bodies (gently). Kim was so frightened that her trainer had to hold the snake while she did the biting. A colleague, initially thinking the snake was rubber, slung it around her neck. She was about to kiss it when it flicked out its tongue. Says Kim: "She completely freaked out." So have some of Korea...
...Beijing championships, the women finished, as usual, in the gold. But so did the men who replaced the suspended archers and hadn't attended the grueling camp. Could that mean snake handling is overrated? No way, says Jung, the women's team coach: "That's like saying you don't need to practice driving because you managed to somehow get a license without studying." Note to next year's team: see you at the crematorium...