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...butler service are part of the mix. With a daily cap of 6,000 skiers, Deer Valley's slopes are uncrowded and meticulously groomed; the on-slope cuisine is outstanding. The Olympic legacy is more visible at the neighboring park city mountain resort, where the eagle superpipe (wider and taller than a half-pipe) offers some whiplash spectating as snowboarders try to prove that gravity is for wimps. Park City is as much a pedestrian town as it is a ski town, with restaurants, bars and shops an easy walk for tired ski legs...
Pisano is a small woman who radiates calm and grace in a crowd of pirouetting, high-kicking men, most of them a foot taller than herself...
...returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says Zahra, a 60-year-old sociologist. "But now when I walk in the street, I stand taller." Ebadi's Nobel is proof that while Muslim women continue to endure severe inequality, many are nonetheless making remarkable efforts to reshape their own lives as well as the societies that shackle them. Ebadi's have special significance, because she is not a Westernized feminist advocating secular rule...
...need to out-work them, out-hustle them,” Stehle said. “Clearly they’re a little taller, but that doesn’t mean we can’t out-rebound them...
Fitzpatrick and the offense resembled the team that averaged over 500 yards-per-game for much of the season rather than the team that could barely muster anything against Columbia two weeks ago. And the defensive secondary, which had struggled in recent weeks to contain taller, stronger receivers, made big plays when they were needed and kept the Bulldog offense out of the end zone...