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...Even today, no skater -- except one in the throes of a postdefeat pout -- is too big to sign autographs, accept a stuffed teddy bear or stop and chat with a thigh-high champion of tomorrow. Most practice sessions are like high school afternoon scrimmages: come along and stay behind afterward to hear from the source what it feels like to sail along the wind in a grand spread eagle. The end of all that may have begun last week...
...Afterward, the mayor went up to the youngpolitician, told him he was the worst speaker hehad ever heard, and asked him to come over to hishouse later, according to Walsh...
...accommodate foreign cultures? Can judges and juries draw reliable conclusions about what the rules in those cultures might really be? Most jurists recognize that ignorance of the law has never been -- and should not be -- a basis for full acquittal. Yet in determining charges before trial and in sentencing afterward, U.S. law has always taken into account a wide array of factors that might shed light on the responsibility of the accused. That might be a useful -- and defensible -- basis for a cultural defense, but only after some well-defined guidelines are developed to help steer the courts through this...
...Asian and Pacific leaders. Their hour-plus session was the highest-level contact between the U.S. and China since the massacre of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing in 1989. Though it was essentially a getting-to-know-you meeting and made no progress on bilateral issues, Clinton said afterward that he and Jiang "agreed on the need to work on improving our relationship...
...hand wringing and science- fiction fantasy -- it was done in such a low-key way by researchers so quiet and self-effacing that the world nearly missed it. The landmark experiment was reported by Jerry Hall at a meeting of the American Fertility Society in Montreal three weeks ago. Afterward, colleagues came up to congratulate him and say "Nice job." Others voted to give his paper, written with his supervisor, Dr. Robert Stillman, the conference's first prize. But nobody seemed to want to pursue the one fact that made his little experiment -- in which he started with 17 microscopic...