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...Olympic games always foster cultural understanding one way or another. This year in addition to maudlin background video pieces on NBC, the cross-cultural sharing extends to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Utah has beautiful mountains for skiing and is 63 percent Mormon. So TV viewers everywhere, or at least TV viewers captivated by the new sport of “skeleton” racing, have found not only top-notch winter athletes in Salt Lake City, but also glimpse at the culture of the clean-living, fast-growing Mormon religion. This juxtaposition of Mormonism, a relatively unassimilated...
Believing in the faith is a key element of Mormonism at Harvard, because coming to Harvard over the more traditional route to the Mormon-run Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, necessarily forces students out on the limb Davidson mentions—and the choice is deliberate. “I came to Harvard to have exposure to new ideas and different perspectives than what I got from my parents,” says Benjamin W. Jarvis...
...Here's the scene: The interview area of the Utah Olympic Oval, downstairs from the speedskating rink, where the press waits for athletes and coaches to emerge from their events and talk (or not) to waiting reporters, producers and broadcasters. A metal barrier stands between the reporters and the competitors' pathway - a separation that just barely keeps athletes from being mauled. If there ever was such a thing as decorum among the press, it's shot to hell the minute a hot interview subject comes into the room...
...Julie Webster, 13, of nearby Morgan, Utah, shadowed her hero for at least an hour in search of an autograph. "Please, Picabo, please, I love you," she called out in a high-pitched voice. "Please, Picabo, will you sign this for me?" Asked why she was risking trouble from her parents by sticking around so long after the event was over, Julie said: "She's so brave, and she's just so cool. She does things I don't think anyone else would do. She goes down these enormous steep hills...
...UNITED STATES Utah Lights Up for the Games This was the moment that Salt Lake City and millions of sports fans worldwide had been waiting for: the opening of the biggest Winter Olympic Games ever. The event began with the customary fanfare but unprecedented levels of security. While F-16 fighters patrolled the skies, more than 15,000 security personnel were deployed, including FBI officers and marksmen on skiing pistes and at all sporting venues. As the Olympic flame arrived at the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium, 3 billion television viewers tuned...