Word: czechs
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...combined; Lodwick finished 20th at Nagano. This Olympiad, the U.S. co-opted the competition, poaching head coach Jan-Erik Aalbu from Norway, a perennial medal winner. Lodwick, now ranked fourth in the world, has a gold and a silver this World Cup season. Demong won an event in the Czech Republic two weeks ago. "I was hoping we could be strong," says Aalbu. "I was not expecting to be as strong as we are looking...
...wisecracking, Cuban-cigar-smoking, martini-drinking former Marine Corps fighter pilot, Lutz is passionate about beauty and speed. He not only loves sports cars but also flies his own Czech L39C jet fighter and sometimes commutes to work in his own helicopter. Born to Swiss parents in Zurich, Lutz has always moved back and forth between Europe and the U.S. He smashed his uncle's Ford coupe into a wall at age eight and walked away from a helicopter accident in 1991. He started at GM in 1960, cruised through BMW, lodged at Ford and then landed at Lee Iacocca...
...cynicism's major proposition: bad things happen to good people. But in Dark Blue World, a Czech pilot named Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy), flying with the R.A.F. in World War II, reaches a level of misery rarely touched in the movies...
...Poland, experiencing its coldest winter in years, more than 200 people have died of exposure. Power lines snapped under the weight of the snow, cutting electricity supplies to 150 villages near Bialystock. A further 200 people died in Russia, where temperatures dropped to -24?C. One-third of the Czech Republic has been declared a disaster area as up to 4 m of snow closed roads. In Bulgaria, the most severe snowstorms in decades cut off dozens of towns...
...Marines have recently been moved into Qatar and Kuwait, prompting fevered speculation that the U.S. is about to move against Iraq. Washington insists it is simply rotating troops, but the Sydney Morning Herald notes that only some 4,000 troops have been rotated out. And the Czech Republic let the cat out of the bag by revealing that the 400 soldiers it has committed for the war on terror may be sent to Kuwait. "The deployment of so many troops may be designed to intimidate Saddam Hussein," the paper suggests. But it may also be the prelude to the battle...