The case was sensational at the time and made many headlines, but with distance and the freedom of key participants to speak without legal jeopardy, the events turn out to have been even stranger than was apparent at the time.
Bender, who now runs an eponymous nonprofit that supports survivors, said her safety was in greater jeopardy when events like the Super Bowl came around because of the "macho" nature of the environment and the surplus of cash that was involved.
In the cases of WWI, WWII & Korea, the tangible interests & actual or perceived security of the nation were put in jeopardy by great events & the US responded, only then giving expression to the moral & symbolic significance of the situation.
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Needless to say, the tensions surrounding Frogstock have now thrown the event into jeopardy.
The event is understood to be a sell-out, with as many as 25,000 to 30,000 tickets have sold, and the prospect of the stars of the Top Gear franchise not attending puts the event in jeopardy.
When IBM's Watson computer won a special episode of US game show Jeopardy, many hailed the event as a threshold of a new era of computing: the end, as IBM's Florian Pinel puts it, of "the era of programmable computers, where you had to write code to get a computer to do what you wanted.
Denis Oswald, an I.O.C. inspector who has been making monthly visits here, said that none of the planned athletic events were in jeopardy and that he and other officials were "more confident than we were two years ago".
"Looking forward, we really do need these legislative waivers," said Martin, "otherwise our Newport and San Francisco events are in jeopardy".
As it happened, economic reality sidetracked the numbers in Peyron's romantic vision, and the actual running of the event was in jeopardy as recently as three months ago.
