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...view his motives as purely pecuniary, one must also dismiss how astonishingly difficult the vault is, even for a master like Bubka. This is not always easy to appreciate, perhaps because there is something deceptively buoyant and elastic about the way a vault appears to unfold on TV. But to see it from 50 ft. away is to understand that the vault is a brutish thing. The poles, especially the ones Bubka uses, are as stiff as lampposts, and their throat-catching bend is the product of extraordinary speed and gristle. Bubka's virtue, or one of them, anyway...
...refused to testify. "His apparent reason for pleading the Fifth was an article in the Friday Wall Street Journal," says TIME White House correspondent James Carney. "It says that despite federal rules, Marceca was able to inspect his FBI file in Craig Livingstone's office after he was dismissed over a problem in his FBI background report." Marceca read allegations against him given to the FBI by two women, whom he later sued for slander. Marceca's plea comes as a further embarrassment to a Clinton Administration trying to quietly put the whole files fiasco to rest. "This...
...faithful actually have God on their side? Are their prayers answered? Benson doesn't say. But a true scientist, insists Jeffrey Levin, cannot dismiss this possibility: "I can't directly study that, but as an honest scholar, I can't rule...
According to Scali, the commission voted to dismiss the action against the Grille based on evidence submitted by the sports bar's attorney, James J. Rafferty...
According to Scali, the Licensing Commission had "no choice but to dismiss the action" taken against the Grille after Rafferty submitted evidence showing that the Boston College students had lied to the investigators from the commission...