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Save the queen, from Biden's motorcade By Chris Erskine
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So I am standing at the oyster bar at the There's a little lick of lobster on the plate, and prawns the size of a woman's hand. Who says these games mostly benefit the rich? In fact, the chef has to prepare two platters, for as you may know (I didn't), the Secret Service requires that duplicate dishes be prepared, in case someone later starts to vomit up a lung. That way, they can test the second dish to determine the cause. So, yeah, it's a little like the House of Bourbon, here in By the way, why do we even have vice presidents? Republican, Democrat — doesn't matter — they're almost always tool bags. The other day, he nearly killed that poor "It was really jarring," she says of the Biden, Fleming and several other Olympic greats, including bobsledder So my pick as the greatest American ice queen of all time spent her I can't bring myself to call her "Fleming," that feels too stiff, or "Peggy," that feels too disrespectful. You'll note that there are famous faces galore up here — "I have just enough celebrity," she says, "that I can still lead a very normal life." Yeah, right. To many of us, she'll always be queen. Only 19, at the time, she won the only U.S. gold at the 1968 games. She says now that she was terrified as she stepped onto the ice, then the music from her program washed over her, a huge calming factor. "The music, I knew it so well ... it was like having the coach out there with me," she recalls. Thanks to Now, at 61, she misses the TV work, but relishes the chance to manage the Fleming-Jenkins winery she and her husband of 40 years run in She notes that her neck and back are stiffening up after the Biden accident — "Today is worse than yesterday," she told me Tuesday morning. But she managed to make it up to Whistler on Monday and will be at the half-pipe Wednesday. She'll stick around, she says, till the men's skating ends at the end of the week. In the meantime, I remember that in college, we used to have these long dorm debates about important world issues. "Say you're choking on a piece of veal," one of the beery arguments began. "Who would you like to have Heimlich you?"
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The answer was almost always She was then, as she is now, a part of American folklore — America's ultimate sweetheart. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment by clicking here.
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