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...Manhattan attorney Lee Kreindler, who acted as lead counsel. Dividing the total $500 million payout over the 270 victims yields an average award of $1.85 million. However, the families had to hand about a third of their awards to their lawyers, and they waited seven to eight years to see any money. And the families of the six people killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing are still waiting for their day in civil court...
Well, it's a new millennium, and no doubt feeling heat from the X-Games generation, the International Olympic Committee has indeed invited the world's best skeleton riders. With a third ya-gotta-be-nuts sliding sport (along with bobsled and luge) now on the schedule, the slate of what Americans consider the Peripherals--nonmarquee sports that zoom into the sporting Zeitgeist every fourth year only to melt away in the post-Games thaw--is at an all-time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps...
...bike racing is that the best cross-country skiers, seeking superhuman endurance, are often druggies. "If you take the results page and look at the Top 30," says Justin Wadsworth, 33, who will compete in his third Games at Salt Lake City, "up to 40% could possibly be dopers...It almost makes me sick." Last year six Finns failed drug tests at the world championships. Rest assured, no matter how many are caught before the Olympic start gun sounds, enough will beat the tests to whip any and all Yanks. At least in one Peripheral, we will still look peripheral...
...cheapest, party-hardiest hostel around. The friendly, eccentric owner is willing to chat with any traveler, because he is a pedophile. Rock-climbing tours leave every day from the main desk at 9am. The premises are generally safe, but watch for the occasional pickpocket or questionably legitimate Third World head of state spending half of his or their annual budget to bring a giant entourage to the neighboring William “John F.” Kennedy School of Government. (864-1200; fax 864-5715; $25 for dorms, $35 for singles; prices may be negotiable). Vicky C. Hallett?...
...Manhattan attorney Lee Kreindler, who acted as lead counsel. Dividing the total $500 million payout over the 270 victims yields an average award of $1.85 million. However, the families had to hand about a third of their awards to their lawyers, and they waited seven to eight years to see any money. And the families of the six people killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing are still waiting for their day in civil court...