A wild driver causes chaos and death on the eve of the Olympics
It is a Friday-night ritual in Westwood Village, an enclave of movie theaters and trendy shops neighboring the sprawling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Teen-agers and college students hang about the bars and ice-cream parlors to gawk and hobnob, while lines of moviegoers curl around the corners.
The milling crowd along Westwood Boulevard was particularly thick last Friday night, the eve of the Olympics' opening ceremony. Passersby hoped to catch a glimpse of a few of the 3,400 athletes housed just four blocks north in the Olympic...
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