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Article: Caring enough to feel shame Salt Lake City also knows bribery has been an Olympic sport
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1999
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Like many local residents, Darin Smedley
isn't making excuses. Bribery is wrong, he says. But -- and
inevitably residents offer this but -- Salt Lake City did only what
other cities vying to host the Olympics have done before.
Salt Lake, however, is a city still capable of shame. Smedley
says he feels it. So does Utah Governor Mike Leavitt. From City
Hall to the ZCMI Center Mall in the capital's well-scrubbed downtown,
people describe themselves as ashamed and embarrassed that bribes
were paid to help them win the 2002 Winter Olympics Games.
At his Utah Spirit kiosk in the mall, Smedley has been fretting
about the spreading scandal. Everything he sells is emblazoned ...