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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- TIME's multinational staff can never agree on which country
- to cheer for in the Olympics, but we are unanimous in supporting
- one particular team: our own. For the past several weeks, this
- 20-member unit coped admirably with some hair-raising
- logistics. Just getting from one far-flung venue to another
- along traffic-clogged roads was a nightmare; men's Alpine
- skiing, for example, was held mostly in Val d'Isere, while
- women's was in Meribel, two hours away by bus.
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- Directing the team and reporting on hockey and speed
- skating was deputy chief of correspondents Paul A. Witteman, who
- trained at Seoul and Calgary. Like most seasoned reporters, he
- was also adept at searching out the best rations. "The one
- constant at all Olympics seems to be pizza," he says. "The
- Savoyard version, perhaps because we are so close to Italy, is
- a clear winner."
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- In contrast to the veterans, contributor Pico Iyer was new
- to the Olympics. "My only previous experience of any sort of
- winter games," he says, "consisted of sitting in California
- watching the Super Bowl with the air conditioner on." Yet his
- fresh eye and fine prose provided a rich sense of the Games'
- atmosphere. Aptly, his most memorable moment happened far from
- the action: "One night I missed my bus connection and I was
- reduced to walking to the next village. The scenery, pale blue
- in the frosted moonlight, was magical, but scenic vistas were
- not the first thing on the mind of an Indian from Santa Barbara
- sludging along a dark, deserted road at 2:30 in the morning."
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- If getting around in the Savoie was a challenge, so was
- getting photographs to New York City. MaryAnne Golon, our
- on-site picture editor, coordinated the efforts of our six
- photographers and sifted through thousands of images each day.
- Operations manager Kevin McVea was in charge of all film
- processing and electronic transmissions to New York. Their
- world-class performances, and those of the other staff members,
- brought something special to the pages of TIME this winter.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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