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IT'S A LONG ROAD FROM GREAT TO GRATEFUL

By Lindsay Berra

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

It's the kind of car they give all the imports on Hockey Club Davos—a nondescript, gray hatchback made distinct by the golden-horned elk of HCD painted on both doors. It slips and slides along the snow-covered road, wipers working hard to clear the windshield of persistent flakes, headlights cutting a bright swath in the nighttime blackness of the Swiss Alps. A dog darts across the road, then disappears as quickly as it came. In the passenger seat, Robin Leblanc curses under his breath i ...

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