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...upon returning home to California, Louganis, as divers say, "lost the water." Disoriented and depressed, he drank, dabbled in drugs and even attempted suicide. He left the hard-nosed Lee for the gentler O'Brien, who somehow kept Louganis focused through all the fallow non-Olympic years that stretched between Montreal and Los Angeles. (The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Games.) In 1984 Louganis won both the springboard and platform competitions. "That was the peak," says O'Brien...
Believing all these stories to be true, Fiona endeavors to bring the family back to its abandoned island, hoping that somehow in the process, her infant brother and the idyllic family life of the past may be regained...
...have the eight years of debating experience that Lat has; indeed the Harvard tournament brings many schools that only have the money for one or two tournaments a year, and thus, their students may not have the experience that even other high-schoolers have. Lat expects them, somehow, to be fluent in social contract theory, social Darwinism, and theories of justice and equality. They are high school students, many of them just starting to learn how to speak in public, and Lat seemingly demands the kind of quality that he is used to seeing from the top debaters from Harvard...
...what's a bit of hair loss and death, if they bring you apparently eternal commercial success and an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the longest running non-musical in American theater history? Sounds remarkable, implausible even. Yet somehow, Shear Madness' formula works...
...help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal hockey players, and amplified explosions knock swirling nebulas of tiny bubbles loose from the insides of our champagne glasses. Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow, coming in under kids' media-hip radar and injecting the edfotainucational muchomedia bitstream direct into their cerebral cortices...