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...Olympics, with its melodramatic, widely followed confrontation between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, changed the sport dramatically. TV suddenly woke up to skating's telegenic grace, and the number of staged competitions-produced primarily for TV and lacking the strict rules that have governed amateur meets in the past-has multiplied. As a result, young skating stars today must not only beat back competition from the amateur ranks. They must also confront a new kind of rival: the pro skater. The stars who emerged from the past two Olympics have not faded into the half-life of touring ice shows...
...General Rupert Smith, arrived in Sarajevo to take up his yearlong tour of duty. The Airborne Downed Overruling the recommendations of top military officers, Canadian Defense Minister David Collenette announced the disbanding of the elite 660-member Airborne Regiment. The minister's decision followed a television broadcast of two amateur videos that depicted some of the paratroopers as racist and grossly undisciplined. Although the Chief of Defense Staff, General John de Chastelain, insisted that recent changes in command, personnel and procedures would restore the reputation of the unit, Collenette
Those records confirm what U.S. officials suspected: no prisoners are still alive. Some defense aides complained that Schweitzer was an amateur trying to play spy, whose find did not add much to what the Pentagon already knew about the missing. Of the 2,211 men listed as MIA, the U.S. has now firmly concluded that 2,156 are dead. Schlatter says the remaining 55 will likely be ruled dead as investigators collect more evidence. Even if that happens, a few Americans will remain unsatisfied. ``For some POW families, this issue will never be laid to rest,'' says Frances Zwenig, vice...
...personality last week when he introduced a colorized version of his beloved Boys Town on the TNT network, intoning that the message was, "You have to love people enough to want to change them, not just feel their pain." But Gingrich was smooth for a reason: he's no amateur when it comes to cable TV. The new Speaker already has his own program each week, The Progress Report, a political talk show on National Empowerment Television, the 24-hour cable network devoted to promulgating conservative opinion. On The Progress Report, Gingrich provides pointed commentary as his co-host Heather...
...term limits were to be successfully imposed on the federal level, some critics are worried that Congress may become too much of an amateur's game. The career support staff, along with lobbyists and bureaucrats, may run roughshod over green legislators. Furthermore, many states would lose the clout of established Representatives and Senators, the hoary politicos whose years of service guarantee them influence and chairmanships of committees. Says Pat Schroeder, the 10-term Representative from Colorado: "Four states have half the votes in Congress. A state with only six votes and no seniority isn't going...