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Article: Go for the Greed.(the corrupt tactics used to get the Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City)
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- Newsweek
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- January 25, 1999
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Squeaky-clean Salt Lake City won the 2002 Winter Games -- but may have paid for them with its soul.
They once called it the city of the Saints, and it only takes a few hours in Salt Lake City to understand why. The city is built around the magnificent Mormon temple, and it unfurls from there in block after block of scrubbed sidewalks and shiny storefronts. Even the snowcapped peaks that ring the city look as if they've been bleached clean. But now, as it prepares to host the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake finds itself sullied by allegations of corruption. It began with the suggestion that Olympics-committee members might have gotten scholarships or free medical ...