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A city that had seen its population double in a decade was the center of the world for a few weeks, and both the athletes and movie stars took full advantage.
Barry Siegel, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and the author of seven previous books, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He now directs the literary journalism program at UC Irvine.
A city that had seen its population double in a decade was the center of the world for a few weeks, and both the athletes and movie stars took full advantage.