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Show .. !MONDAY, JANUARY 8 , 2001 STATE UTAH'S OLYMPIC SCANDAL CONTINUES: This year's top Utah news story was also last year's top news story, and it may be next year's as well. The Olympic scandal is far from over. Its persistence can be traced to the 18 months it took federal prosecutors to bring their case to court. In July, Salt Lake City Olympic bid leaders Tom Welch and Dave Johnson were indicted on one count of conspiracy, five counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud and four counts of interstate travel in aid of racketeering .. They are accused of spending more than $1 million on gifts and other inducements for International Olympic Gommittee members to bring the 2002 Winter Games to Utah. LOS CHURCH OPENS MAIN STREET PLAZA:· The Mormon church's Main Street Plaza opened in October in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City. By then, however, the American Civil Gordon B. Liberties Union had Hinckley sued in federal court, claiming that speech and behavior restrictions in the city, instituted by the church , violate the Constitution . The city sold the property to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt~r-day Saints for $8.1 million and agreed the church could limit p ot~sts, ban smoking and forbid all non-Mormon missionaries from proselytizing there, among other things . The case is pending . COM PROM ISE REACH ED BETWEEN SLOC AND MORMON CHURCH OVER ALCOHOL: The tension between Mormon and nonMormon citizens of Salt Lake City was manifest as a battle waged between Anderson and Olympic organizers over beer. Anderson wants the state's liquor laws liberalized, not just for the Olympics but permanently. He used his seat as a Salt Lake Organizing Committee trustee to push for beer to be served at Olympic venues. The LOS Church, on the other hand, said the liquor laws shouldn't be changed for the Games. A compromise of sorts was reached in November when SLOC agreed to allow beer to be served at some venues. NATIO N FLORIDA FINALLY DECIDES: After weeks of counting and re-counting , George W. Bush has been named the President Elect. The close U.S. presidential election brought a host of issues to light. The George w. Bush Electoral Colrege, punch-card voting machines. butterfly ballots, hanging chads and state vs. federal rights became topics of everyday conversation , as the contes.t between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush played out in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts. PAGE 11 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS: THE YEAR THAT WAS THE DOT.COM IMPLOSION: A warming relations between two countries combination of poor business planning, still technically at war. Images of North intense competition and weak advertising Korea's enigmatic leader ~im Jong II markets pushed scores of dot.com expansively entertaining the South's Kim companies to the brink, wiping out billions Dae jung in Pyongyang-were almost of dollars in market capitalization and • certainty the most surprising pictures of sending share prices tumbling. the -year in news. It was not too long ago that any BLOOD SOILS PATH TO MIDEAST company with a dot com at the -end of its name would be regarded as a sure-fire PEACE: The peace bet on Wall Street, regardless of whether process between Israel the company had a sound business plan and the Palestinians or a sweat sock for a spokesman. But · seemed to vanish like a times have changed. Last year's dot com mirage in 2000 as darlings are this year's dot com disasters, increasingly tense talks leaving many investors to wonder what to between Ehud Barak dd next. and Vasser Arafat gave . way to deadly fighting .JUDGE RULES M ICROSOFT A in the streets. With ever rising death tolls MONOPOLY: In April, U.S. District Ehud Barak Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled and an Israeli election that Microsoft, the world's largest looming, the two sides closed out the software company, was a monopoly and year with the promise of a new round of had competed illegally. Jackson ordered United States mediated talks . the company to split, but Microsoft Palestinian Cabinet Minister Vasser appealed ar:id the case was expected to Abed Rabbo said, ''The kind of wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court. agreement we want to reach should be U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield comprehensive , with detailed Jackson said the company "maintained mechanisms and detailed international its monopoly power by anticompetitive guarantees of implementation." means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market," which violates the M ILOSEVIC BOOTED OUT: Sherman Act. Microsoft also violated the Yugoslavia finally pushed Slobodan Sherman Act by "unlawfully tying its Web Milosevic out of power in 2000. Public browser to its operating system ," the sentiment caught up with the Serbian judge wrote . . ~trongman after he tried to cancel the results of an election that saw him lose to RESEARCHERS ABLE TO MAP Vojislav Kostunica . THE HUMAN BLUEPRINT: In a Kostunica was sworn in as Yogoslavia's development that promised to new president on Oct. 7, 2000. revolutionize medicine, researchers from Yugoslavia's political isolation from two competing teams completed a draft Europe began to erode shortly after the change in power. of the human genome, the master • blueprint for the human body.The massive databas~ of the tens of thousands of genes in the human body , WOODS CONT I N UED T O collectively known as the genome , DOMINATE: Congratulate Ernie Els. Of promises to revolutionize medicine in the his five second-place finishes in 2000, coming decades. three were in majors and four were to Despite the ethical uncertainties and Tiger Woods, earning Els the sole golf technical challenges ahead, the 10-year superlative still worth playing for: world's effort to unrock the mystery of our best human golfer. biological essence is being hailed as one He became the first golfer to win nine of the greatest scientific undertakings of PGA titles in a year since Sam Snead all time. won 11 in 1950; the second ever, after Ben Hogan in 1953, to win three professional majors in a single season; FRESH FACES WIN RACES: Voters and, at 24-years-old, the youngest of five golfers to complete a career Grand Slam . in Russia, Mexico and Taiwan all sent a clear message that they looked forward to new leadership and new priorities in YANKEES WIN the new millennium. For the first time in THI RD ST RAI GHT the history of each country, the ruling WORLD SERIES: The party in Mexico and in Taiwan was first New York-New York booted from the seat of power. Russia , World Series in 44 years meanwhile, followed up the always wasn't all it was cracked entertaining Boris Yeltsin with the noup to be as the Yankees nonsense, ex-KGB operative Vladimir vanquished the Mets in Putin. five games. Yankees Joe Torre pitcher Roger Clemens RUSSIAN SUBMARINE KURSK did his best to liven SINKS: No survivors were found when things up in Game 2, firing a bat shard in divers finally reached the devastated hulk the direction of Mets catcher Mike Piazza of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk (whom he had beaned in July), but in the in the icy.waters of the Barents Sea . The end it was the Yankees' continued world had held out hope for more than a postseason dominance that wrote all the week that some of the crew of 118 may headlines. have survived the catastrophic explosion At age 26, shortstop Derek Jeter won that sunk the vessel as it was taking part his fourth ring and became the first player in war games with much of the Russian to claim World Series and All-Star Game fleet. MVP awards in the same season. Clemens seemed to thrive on his own ALL SMILES IN NORTH KOREA: mischief, going 8-2 in post-Piazza starts, The June summit between North Korea pitching a 15 strikeout one-hitter after and South Korea punctuated a year of flooring the Mariners' Alex Rodriguez SPORTS WORLD twice in Game 4 of the ALCS and allowing two hits in eight shutout innings in the bat-throwing game. Winning by any means necessary, Clemens ~nally earned his pinstripes. 2002 OLYMPIC GAMES AT SYDNEY I AUSTRALIA: United States athletes went to Australia with big dreams and came home champions as the U.S. · · brought home more metals than any other country. One of the biggest success stories was U.S. athlete Marion Jones who proclaimed she would win five gold medals at the 2000 Olympic Games. Tums out she was just one word off. Competing in the 100 meters,. 200 meters, long jump, 400 relay and 1,600 relay, the American sprint star became the first woman to win five track medals in one Olympics. NFL PLAYOFFS CONTINUE: The big news is that the New Orleans Saints won their first playoff game ever and the Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams were knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. The playoffs will continue until the Super Bowl which is scheduled for Jan . 28, 2001 . VENUS WILLIAMS SET S A STANDARD -:,'·. IN W OM EN'S T ENNIS: \ Between a three-set loss to Aranxta SanchezVicario in the French · Open quarterfinals and a three-set loss to Lindsay Venus Wiffiams Davenport at a tournament in Austria in October, Williams won 35 straight matches and six straight titles , including two Olympic gold medals and her first two Grand Slams, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open . · While some cited her sister Serena's U.S. Open victory last September and first ever win over Venus a month later for Venus's apparent ennui, Williams would only say that tendinitis in both wrists is what caused her to miss the first four months of the 2000 season. She avenged her loss to Serena at the All England Club, where she had to beat Martina Hingis, Serena, and Davenport in succession to become the first black woman to win Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1958. _, ....... . -~ LEISURE NAPST ER FORCED TO FACE THE MUSIC: The Napster debate continues to lead the way as one of the most controversial entertainment issues. The music-swapping service was sued by several major labels for creating a system to trade music for free. This has pitted the issues of copyright infringement against freedom of intellectual content online. Napster has . since promised to create a service that would compensate artists and copyright holders by charging a membership fee. AMERICA'S OBSESSION WITH REALITY TV: The CBS networ1< was at the forefront of the reality television invasion with its summer smash-hit Survivor. A game-show microcosm of dogeat-dog-and-rats-and-snakes world, cast mates rolled in mud, ate disgusting things, held tribal councils, made us all realize just how far we might, or might not, go for a $1 million prize. .'. |