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...comforting to know that American sports stars aren't the only ones who go wiggy with fame. Russians PASHA GRISHUK and EVGENY PLATOV, right, the only ice dancers ever to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, have always been as odd a match off the ice as they were perfect on it. Pasha is, well, flamboyant. She models herself after Marilyn Monroe, went through the torturous process of changing her name from Oksana to Pasha--Russian for passion--and has made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity...
DISNEY CHANNEL Compared with its other millennium-ready operations, Disney's network is Frontierland. The programming is filled with middling cartoons, Disney movies and, for no apparent reason, daily back-to-back repeats of Growing Pains. But the whole Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a network" concept pays off in Bug Juice. It's a Real World treatment of 12-to-15-year-olds away at camp. Whereas MTV's show gets mired in the inconsequential whining of twentysomethings ("I can't believe you just stuck your finger in the peanut butter, dude!"), the torture...
...TIME's back-to-back columns by Vice President Gore and computer-science professor David Gelernter gave two extremes of the value of Internet connection for students. Gore says the Internet is essential for education; Gelernter wants kids to learn first, surf later. You should have included a third, more pragmatic stance that articulates how the Internet's rewards may only be realized when linked to the responsibilities of academic achievement, a program that is run lightly in harness. Gelernter's worst fears will certainly be realized if school districts make room for computers by throwing out library...
...kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded. U.S. intelligence officials suspected there had been fewer. But on Saturday Pakistan conducted one more test at a nearby site to mirror India's back-to-back blasts. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Sharif said these tests would be the last "for the foreseeable future." Asked about Pakistan's actions, Sharif responded, "We were compelled to make a test. As a human being, I can tell you it was a painful decision...
Season highlights included solid, back-to-back, three-goal wins over traditional ECAC powers Providence and Cornell. And after advancing to the Beanpot Championship with a sound defeat of Boston College, Harvard took second-ranked Northeastern to the brink, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period before finally losing the `Pot to the Huskies by a slim 5-4 margin...