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...Votes won in Utah's primary, his best showing...
INDICTED. THOMAS WELCH and DAVID JOHNSON, high-ranking Utah Olympics officials; for allegedly paying $1 million in bribes to bring the 2002 Games to their state; in Salt Lake City. Both men denied the charges...
There was lots of crime news in the big type too. Over in Utah, a 15-count indictment was handed up against Salt Lake City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C...
...listening to Metallica this morning in my office," Sen. Orrin Hatch told the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, to guffaws. "Pretty darn good." The suddenly impish Utah conservative even downloaded a Creed album as the hearings kicked off, to show how easy...
...those networks are breaking down." Kenan found his nostalgia echoed across the country as he researched his most recent book, the nonfictional Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century (1999), for which he interviewed more than 200 people. In places like Alaska and Utah, he found those who never knew the South firsthand yet had a yearning for it. "What's true of African-American identity is true for Southern identity," says Kenan. "A lot of it is fragile and in danger, and a lot of it is so much a part...