2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating. All events were held at the Salt Lake Ice Center.
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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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“O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
The lifting up of day.”
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