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...these, finally, were as fine a Winter Olympics as could be dreamt. In Salt Lake City, winter sport was not only elevated to Wasatch heights by a 16-year-old figure skating marvel from Long Island, it was reinvented day by day, the idea of an ice-and-snow athlete thoroughly redefined. The United States, host and reformer, fielded a team that was as multihued and symbolically resonant as the Olympic rings. Yankee athletes came through wonderfully, and when they didn't, they were, by and large, good sports. The message, which is pretty close to the heart of that...
...Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom had seen snow before...
...understanding of the folklore is that the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back was the fact that in the late ’70s, lots of trees were damaged during the filming of Small Circle of Friends by use of fake snow,” Wrinn says...
...hundreds of Disney gift shops placed approximately 50 feet apart. Tourists at Disney eagerly snap photos of Cinderella’s Castle and chipmunks Chip and Dale. Tourists at Harvard eagerly snap photos of Widener Library and feisty squirrels that seem to have pranced right out of Snow White’s woodland home. Autograph books are toted here and there in hopes of a Goofy sighting or a close encounter with Natalie Portman ’03. Visitors pose before John Harvard’s statue as they do before Walt Disney’s statue, though I have...
...time taking such advice. First semester, all the rage was talking about blowing off summer research or switching topics or something else just as tantalizing as that. Reading period and exam period were an opportune time to complain about thesising in Cambridge while everyone else made good with the snow in New Hampshire. And nowadays, we have the pleasure of seemingly endless conversations about deadlines, revisions and library fines. To be honest, it’s been a rather unpleasant journey for all involved. Seniors spend more time complaining about their theses than writing them, thereby perpetuating their pointless drivel...