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Time: 08-06-2008 19:33 User: jliu PubDate: 08-10-2008 Zone: KY Page Name: E1 Color: Features Can't get enough of the crossword? Check out more puzzles online. SUNDAY AUGUST 10, 2008 Joel Welin, editor 582-4684 1 Fax: 582-4665 Annie's Mailbox E4 Miss Manners E4 Crossword E4 AP file photo Author Max Holland theorizes that the first shot fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, above, happened before the Zapruder film. i JFK in writer's sights for 12 years Max Holland pored over Zapruder film Photos by Michael Clevenger, The Courier-Journal John Findling, a former history professor at Indiana University Southeast, is co-editor of "Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement." By Neely Tucker Washington Post WASHINGTON Max Holland, who appears to be coherent, is in his book-lined study, just off the kitchen in his house in Silver Spring, Md. He's going over the Zapruder film. Again.

And again And Birds are chirping outside. The sun is out. Inside, it's dark, quiet among the filing cabinets. He's been at work on his book about the Warren Commission investigation into President Kennedy's assassination for 12 years. For.

Twelve. Years. And right here in just the fifth paragraph! you already have the overwhelming desire to take him by the collar and shout: Max! Buddy! SNAP OUT OF IT! Abort, abort! Entire human beings have disappeared in Dealey Plaza! It's the Bermuda Triangle of pop culture! But he's saying, "Now, you see right here He's pointing to Secret Service agents on the screen. "I don't want to overwhelm you This is a short story about American paranoia. It is slightly scary.

It is about how even good writers and re-See JFK, E2, col. 1 beyond sports Retired IUS professor and other observers find games' political and cultural aspects fascinating OLYMPIC TRIVIA The first positive drug test at an Olympic Games was in 1968 in Mexico City when a Swedish pentathlete drank beer then a banned substance before his event. (In 1960 a Danish cyclist who died during the games in Rome was found to have been given amphetamines and a nicotine-type stimulant.) The Paralympics for athletes with disabilities were sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee in 1960 and first held in conjunction with the Summer Games in Montreal in 1976. They are now held a few weeks after the Summer Games at the same site as the Summer Games. When the modern Olympic movement began in the 1890s, there was no provision for women.

At the 1900 games, about 19 women participated in golf, tennis and croquet. Women first competed in track and field in 1928, but after a competitor collapsed in the 800-meter race, women were banned from track events longer than 200 meters until 1960. Women first competed in figure skating in 1908, in swimming and diving in 1912, and in gymnastics in 1928. The International Olympic Committee did not have a female member until 198L Source: John Findling, co-editor "Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement" IN STYLE If Japan's Lolita look has grown into a full-fledged subculture. 1 Vi'i By Katya Cengel The Courier-Journal The first Olympics in which China participated was in 1932 in Los Angeles.

It sent a team of one. The athlete was runner Liu Changchun, and he didn't make the finals in either of his events the 100 and 200 meters. But he became a celebrity, said John Findling, who in 2006 traveled to China to speak on China's historic participation in the Olympics. "The whole Chinese-American community in Los Angeles came out to greet him," the retired Indiana University Southeast history professor said. Four years later, China sent 69 athletes to the Olympic Games in Berlin via ship and train.

They were supposed to have practiced during the voyage, but instead suffered from seasickness, said Findling. They won no medals that year, or in years to come. It was not until the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles that China won its first Olympic medal, and 31 others. Now, the Summer Games are in China for the first time, and the Chinese hope to win more gold medals than any other country, said Findling. Because China has a "home field advantage" its athletes don't have to travel as far or adjust to unfamiliar food, weather and customs they will probably do better than ever, he explained.

Findling co-edited a dictionary of the Olympics in 1996, which was updated in 2004 and rechristened "Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement" (Greenwood Press, Co-editor Kimberly Pelle, who manages the adult student center at IUS, stressed the encyclopedia is not a "records book" but "more of a historical, political, socio-economic essay." The kind of book that Wayne Wilson, vice president of education services with the LA84 Foundation, a private nonprofit youth sports organization, turns to when students Findling took trips to China in 2006 and 2007 and observed the new subway lines, roads and sports venues created for the Olympics. and teachers want information on the Olympic Games. Wilson wrote a chapter on the 1984 Games, the first since 1932 to produce a revenue surplus. That surplus of more than $230 million went toward, among other things, the founding of LA84. The Beijing Olympics, said Wilson, have a political focus, echoing other "political Olympics," such as the 1936 "Nazi" Olympics in Berlin, the 1972 Munich Games, the 1980 Moscow Games that the U.S.

boycotted, and the 1984 Los Angeles Games that the Soviet Union boycotted. The Beijing Games arrive amid continuing international criticism of China's human-rights record, among other concerns. It is this rich historical and political setting See OLYMPICS, E2, col. 1 Lolita look in Tokyo The look is little girl, tea-party cute, with hair ribbons or tiny bonnets, moving to frilly dresses and thick platform boots or Mary Jane flats. It's the Lolita look in Tokyo, where young women thumb their noses at the fashion establishment on behalf of their "pure, girllike world." Story, Page E3 fi ajlpltMI Availpl id witn ony wner.pners..