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...skaters often have to share precious ice space with speedskaters, limiting their ability to build speed and work on expansive elements such as spirals and intricate footwork sequences. Things aren't much better in Japan, where crowded sessions forced Asada, as an up-and-coming talent in the early 2000s, to train for a few years in California before returning to a new rink built in Nagoya. (See a brief history of Olympic sore losers...
...feel the quality of public education has dropped off considerably," says Jorge Mora, director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in San José. One indicator: in the 1990s, the wealthiest 10% of Costa Rica's population earned 15 times what the poorest tenth made; in the 2000s that figure was almost 25 times...
...trial centered on accusations that de Villepin used successive cabinet positions to mount a dirty tricks campaign in the mid-2000s aimed at discrediting Sarkozy - then a popular minister who shared de Villepin's ambition to succeed President Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy's lawyers argued that de Villepin sought to exploit a fake list of French notables, including Sarkozy, who allegedly held secret bank accounts containing illegal kickback money. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...watch” by Congressional Quarterly faced filibusters or filibuster threats in the 1960s. For example, when Lyndon Johnson was counting votes for Medicare in 1965, he assumed that a majority vote would pass and did not even consider having to break a filibuster. By contrast, in the 2000s, 70 percent of “legislation to watch” faced a 60-vote requirement...