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Silver should go to the winner

By Paul Lukas
Special to Page 2

Monday, February 13, 2006

"The gold medal is my favorite color!" figure skater Sasha Cohen wrote on her Web site last month. And that pretty much sums up the Olympics' biggest aesthetic problem right there: The whole affair is built around the exceedingly faulty premise that gold might somehow be superior to silver. OK, maybe white gold is cool, but that's just because it looks like silver. Regular gold is tacky, ugly, clunky, while silver is classy, sleek, tasteful. Think about it: Have you ever heard anyone refer to a ...

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