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...accident. By his gifted sister's standards Ivica was a slow starter, waiting until he was an almost ancient 22 for his first World Cup win. That came in this season's opening slalom at Aspen in November last year, cheered on by his mother, Marica, who said afterward, "Last year, it's my daughter. This year, it's my son." Between his first and second runs Ivica took a call from his sister in Austria, but he couldn't understand a word she was saying, because "she was actually screaming into the mobile phone...
...Pechstein. Six years ago, when Friesinger failed to show at the German championships, Pechstein suggested that her rival was feigning illness. At this year's European meet, it was Pechstein's turn to claim illness, though she chose to stay - and beat Friesinger in the 5,000. Friesinger said afterward that Pechstein "couldn't really have been that ill." Pechstein shot back: "She speaks ... like she is in kindergarten...
...August, he walked out of the shelter in a fit of frustration. His mother agreed to take him in temporarily. Soon afterward, a neighbor said Sanders could rent a 6-ft. by 12-ft. room with the $215 welfare check, if he would also help fix up the place. Elated, he went the next day to the welfare office and got approval. The check took three weeks to arrive, testing the patience of his new landlord. But at last he moved in. He shares a bathroom and a kitchen, but he has his own phone and a TV. "I feel...
When funding is pumped into the leaky system, it's often spent unwisely. According to recent figures, less than 2% of health dollars are allocated to the economically smart business of preventing disease. The rest goes to research and the costly job of treating illness afterward. "There's no better place in the world to get sick," says Satcher. "Our weakness is in preventing disease in the first place...
...Berlin could also battle for what he thought he was due. "It took longer to write one of his contracts than a whole script," producer Arthur Freed recalled, adding that, afterward, he'd "give you anything you wanted." Avid to see his name above the title, he demanded and got possessive credit on many of his films: "Irving Berlin's 'On the Avenue,'" "Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas,'" Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies,'" "Irving Berlin's 'There's No Business Like Show Business'" and the grammatically confounding "Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.?" Even in the service, he needed...