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Both Nancy Kerrigan, 24, and Tonya Harding, 23, are soap-opera fans, though only Harding's life resembles one. Kerrigan's sturdy family life and stable upbringing imbued her with a manner so authentic and unassuming that even last week's media barrage seemed not to faze her. Through her good years (a bronze medal in the '92 Games) and bad (a dismal fifth-place finish at the '93 World Championships), Kerrigan has drawn on the unconditional love of two parents, two devoted older brothers and an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins, who turn out at competitions...
Editing both authors' often inflammatory prose didn't seem to faze her. "My position is not to take a position," she says. "I sell books, and allow people to have their say." Yet she admits that some of Stern's material bothered her, especially his verbal assaults on her other clients, like Limbaugh and Gifford: "It is not my job to censor Howard Stern, although I have to say it was very painful to sit there and deal with the fact that he had some nasty things to say about some of my friends...
There you have it. Everyone's optimistic. Losing an All-New England goalie doesn't even seem to faze...
There you have it. Everyone's optimistic. Losing an All-New England goalie doesn't even seem to faze...
That kind of derision doesn't faze the feisty Guidon. On the charcoal deposits, she argues, "If they had been left by forest fires, carbon deposits would have been found scattered across a wide area." They are not. In many cases, the charcoal is ringed by stones, says Guidon, which is strong supporting evidence that these were man-made hearths, not natural formations. Besides, the area was a humid, tropical rain forest 30,000 years ago, and natural fires would have had a hard time getting started...