The lens was fixed on Jerome Jordan, now the center at Tulsa but then a bone-thin, 6-foot-10 basketball tenderfoot whose organized game experience totaled one year.
Tonya Harding, whose organized attack on one of her competitors, Nancy Kerrigan, was much more sinister and injurious, yet she quickly slipped away into private ignominy.
For example, Boyd Tinsley, the violinist and backup singer for the Dave Matthews Band, gave $50,000, as did the Service Employees International Union, whose organizing efforts Mr. Edwards has supported.
VINTON, Iowa — Steve and Cindy Anders belong to one of Iowa's most politically savvy movements — Christian home-schoolers, whose organizing on behalf of Mike Huckabee in 2008 was one of the secrets behind his upset victory in the state's Republican caucuses.
Some of his most penetrating commentary has been on Tokyo, a place with no true downtown or any other obvious plan, whose organizing themes he manages to make sense of as few others have.
A small group whose organizing principle is hatred of Americans could concoct a lethal brew of pathogens in a basement laboratory and stealthily disperse it through a vaporization machine in the back of a pickup truck, killing tens of thousands in a major American city.
"Edward Snowden showed we've inadvertently built the world's largest surveillance network with the web," said Mr. Kahle, whose group organized the conference.
And today's competitive disciplines trace back to the Norwegian Army, whose officers organized competitions to keep skills sharp and spirits enthused.
"It really is a warm feeling knowing that we are not in this alone," said Ms. Lofaso VanRie, whose club organized a bake sale to aid victims of the hurricane.
St. Anton is the home of Hannes Schneider whose genius organized the technique of skiing in its most useful modern form and gave it the name it goes by, the Arlberg technique.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, whose office organized the tour, said that while there has been progress, the border "is still not as secure as we want it to be or expect it to be".
