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...Olympics in the books, the post-Games' analysis by Own the Podium 2010 chief Roger Jackson gets under way. Each sport will be evaluated to determine what was done right and what needs to change to meet the target of 35 medals and the No. 1 ranking at Vancouver-Whistler. "Own the Podium is a business plan. It's only been in place for 14 months," says Read. "All the winter sports have said, 'Let's roll up the sleeves and get going.'" Thirty-five total medals, from 24? Fourth to first in skiing in four years? It's doable...
...Canada's rivals are feeling motivated, they also are coping with some key losses. A leg injury suffered by Czech goaltender Dominik Hasek in the team's opener against Germany prompted NHL vice president Bill Daly to withhold the league's commitment to the Games beyond the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Olympics. Other top players who are out: Swedish forward Markus Naslund, Czech forward Patrick Elias and Finnish goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff...
...Gretzky, anyway--was supposed to shift at least slightly to the rest of the country's Olympic athletes. The C.O.C. is challenging its skiers, skaters and sliders to lift Canada to third place overall at this year's Games, up from fourth in Salt Lake City. With the Vancouver-Whistler Games on the horizon, the C.O.C. views Torino as an early indicator of whether Canada has any hope of achieving No. 1 status in 2010. "We understand that's raising the bar, but low expectations in life mean low outcomes," Rudge says. That's a shift from the old Canadian...
...reviewing the trial transcript of 20,667 pages, the judge took seven months before handing down a statement that included this sentence: "Eckert and Mauchly did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer, but instead derived that subject matter from one Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff." Elsie Atanasoff Whistler Rockville...
...another genius. Compare, contrast and voilà: You have a blockbuster exhibition guaranteed to bring in the crowds. The phenomenal success of the three-city "Matisse Picasso" show in 2002-03 helped inspire the thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others as a force-fed art history lecture. But there's no denying that when such exhibitions work, they can have...