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...team officials who have been the receivers of those thoughts, the 60 Minutes fiasco may have been a long-awaited opportunity to whack the puppy with the paper. "Talented people are a challenge, and what makes some people great is that they require a lot," says Bill Marolt, president of the USSA. (Translation: This guy drives me batty.) "Hopefully this has created something positive, not just with Bode but with the whole team." For years Miller has challenged USSA brass about coaching, training and conditioning methods, equipment and what he considers insufficient support for his ideas. "They are not totally...
...benefit. Clearly, the pressure was on. Not surprisingly, the involved parties swiftly reached an agreement—featuring gradual price increases and the involvement of third-party dealers—to save Muscovite face. Several lessons and comparisons can be drawn following this New Year’s freeze fiasco...
...that mistakes were made or frauds committed without his knowledge, but as head of the research team and lead author of the published results, he's stuck with the responsibility. No matter what the investigation concludes about his two other landmark papers, Hwang will be remembered for the fiasco that embarrassed his university and the South Korean government--and deepened the public's unease and ambivalence about stem cells and human cloning...
...little bit…dare I say it?...touching. (Insert vomit here.) Oh Mischa, the things you do to me!The past three episodes have each had a defining dramatic moment of this kind: Marissa’s nightmare about the shooting; Ryan’s punching-bag fiasco; and this kaleidoscopic flashback. Even though this one was effective, the act needs to stop.Seriously, what’s next? Will Julie be overcome by a flood of repressed memories from her trailer-park childhood? If that prediction materializes, I’m so money…and so incredibly...
...blend of experience with a critical perspective”—a phrase that leapt from Haddock’s mouth at least twice during a disappointing UC debate where the moderators, armed with smarm, outshined the back-slappingly platitudinous candidates. Taking the cake, however, from the debate fiasco was an epiphany of Voith’s. Wrap your mind around this: “What I’m really gonna get done is I’m gonna take a comprehensive look at what the UC is doing now and make changes in the future that will...