text: As he said, Bradbury justifies his medal by viewing it not as the result of one race in Salt Lake City, but as a reward for the years of toil he spent perfecting his craft. While he would have preferred to win in traditional fashion, he believes he got what was owed to him.
  "I would obviously have preferred to have won when I was the best in the world, but that's not the way it turned out," Bradbury wrote.
  "Would I be as well remembered if I'd won in 1994? Probably not. Either way, it still would have been the first Winter Olympics gold medal for the southern hemisphere, so it would have been a difficult one to forget. But it's hard to say how my life would have panned out if I'd won in the traditional way.
  "Before Salt Lake, I felt I'd been screwed over in previous Olympics and some of that was my fault, some of that was other people's faults and in some ways things just didn't work out.
  "Do I believe that if you do right by others, if you work hard really hard at what you do, then karma comes into play at some point? Yeah, I do."
  
  Rapporteur's Note: Where possible, I try to identify speakers. I'm not positive of all their identities, and may refrain from ID'ing them on grounds of requests from RAND and the Consul-General. All of the Consul-General's remarks are for public record, as far as I am aware; I have verified this with Dr. Ashley Tellis, the Consul-General's RAND contact and the organizer of this event before posting this page. The format of this talk was a small discussion group; Mr. Azizuddin read from a prepared speech for perhaps 20 minutes, and then opened the floor to questions.
  Mr. Azizuddin (PCG hereafter, for Pakistani Consul-General) began with a prepared speech which consisted of an abbreviated history primer on the South Asia region, specifically India and Pakistan. The high points to this speech were the following: The last indigenous empire to unite the area was displaced by the British approx. 300 years ago. The British ruled through a policy of "divide and rule" for the next 250 years (he was careful never to use the term 'colonialism' or its derivatives). Then WWII drained the British Empire of strength to the point where it decided / was forced to set up the partitioning of the region into autonomous nations.