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"    &amp;quot;Russia has some of the most skilled computer hackers in the world. Combine that with weak law enforcement and a strong criminal underworld, you get a big problem.&amp;quot; That was all in a report from NBC News&amp;#039; Richard Engel, who&amp;#039;s in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympics. He then detailed how his computer and cellphone were hacked &amp;quot;in a minute.&amp;quot; I am going to be in Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympics, too, but I don&amp;#039;t care if hackers peek inside my computer. All they will see are pictures of my one-year-old baby daughter. She is smiling sweetly in most of them, showing off all four of her teeth. If they are unsatisfied and feel like peeking inside my hotel room window, all they will see is my one-year old baby daughter sitting on my lap, smashing my keyboard with raspberry jam hands and showing off all four of her teeth in a gleefully destructive grimace. Her name is Hemingway Rose and she is coming to the Olympics because these are going to be the wildest Games ever and I must cover them. Because her mother is a powerful sports&amp;#039; agent, representing two hopeful gold medalists. Because neither of us can bear the thought of leaving her behind. She will tromp in the snow and try to eat lots of it, especially if it is dirty. She will laugh and then get cranky and I will have to walk for miles to get her to fall asleep. And it will be a joy. It will be a joy even though these Olympics are besieged with terrorist threats, accusations of corruption, potentially disastrous infrastructure and skilled computer hackers. There have already been suicide bombings to the north and a CNN poll states that 57% of Americans feel a terror attack is likely at the Games themselves. Why, then, bring an innocent young thing to such a place? For me, the answer is simple. Life cannot be lived in the What Ifs. None of us know what is going to happen over the next two weeks. Sochi might be the greatest party on earth and, for Hemingway, the possibility of missing a chance to experience another culture, to eat Black Sea caviar chased by borscht chased by watching her mother&amp;#039;s clients hoist gold medals chased by a glass of ice-cold vodka (for her father) is too much. Life is always an adventure and a life well lived is always a gamble. Certainly some of the threats and accusations and reports are credible, but the American public has also taken a very perverse pleasure in Russia bashing. I used to cover war and mayhem in the Middle East and would always fly Aeroflot to and from Beirut and Damascus and Sana&amp;#039;a. I did so because if things went bad I wanted a Russian behind the controls, sleeves rolled up, smoking a cigarette and sorting things out. My father taught me to believe in Russians and I want Hemingway to see them so she can believe in them too. I want her to grow up gallivanting around the earth, learning about different people, new places, fascinating things. I don&amp;#039;t want her to be afraid and the best way to teach her is by example. Na zdarovye, Hemingway Rose. Na zdarovye. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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