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...train barreled over Joseph Hewins' body on a wintry evening in 1845 in the Massachusetts Berkshires. Hewins had spent the workday shoveling snow off the tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking...
...under the grace. That's what makes it fun to watch and useful as well. Games have always been a handy mirror for every challenge we face, every test we take. But we may be especially grateful for the chance to stop and watch this spectacle on ice and snow. The last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much more gently. Will Sasha Cohen be the first woman to land a quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo...
...difference this year is that Miller knows he's faster than anyone else running slalom gates; it's just a question of how fast he needs to be to win. So he has learned how to better manage that tiny margin of error that separates world beaters from snow eaters. "He doesn't have to go all out every run," explains Tommy Moe, who won the downhill in 1994. "When you get that confident, it's really easy to ski fast...
...halfpipe competition, with its music and its crowd interaction, could become the beach volleyball of the Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the U.S. should dominate. The halfpipe is a U-shaped channel carved in the snow in which riders do lip tricks and airs, including rotations, before landing. Amplitude, the height of each trick off the lip of the pipe, is key, as is style...
After the roast, Parker sat back and enjoyed a preview of the Theatricals’ new musical “Snow Place Like Home...