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SUSPENDED. MARIE-REINE LE GOUGNE, 41, and DIDIER GAILHAGUET, 48, French skating officials who, the International Skating Union ruled, colluded to fix the result of the pairs event at the Salt Lake City Olympics in February by ranking the Russian pair ahead of the Canadians; from any involvement with international skating for three years; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...LISTEN WITHOUT JUDGING Fathers sometimes want to rush in and fix problems; daughters don't always need solutions but want to air their feelings without fretting that Dad will freak...
Autistics have trouble learning things that cannot be thought about in pictures. The easiest words for an autistic child to learn are nouns because they relate directly to pictures. Spatial words such as over and under had no meaning for me until I had a visual image to fix them in my memory. Even now, when I hear the word under by itself, I automatically picture myself getting under the cafeteria tables at school during an air-raid drill, a common occurrence on the East Coast in the early 1950s...
...Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song works daily on a long novel, though he won't say what it's about. He and his wife Norris Church share a big, brick house in Provincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod. Lumbering around the kitchen to fix you a tuna sandwich, he explains why Provincetown is a good place to concentrate: "Most of the people we knew up here are dead. We don't have to go out much...
...Pentagon for giving Iraq advanced warning of plans for an invasion, it is tremendously misguided in believing an invasion is the proper course of action. Despite being labeled the next logical extension of the war on terrorism, an attack on Iraq will be nothing but an attempt to fix the Gulf War’s failures. Saddam Hussein is indeed a brutal, dangerous dictator, but a large-scale invasion at this time seems sadly self-serving, unjustifiably reckless and unfortunately counterintuitive given our efforts to win allies in the unstable Middle East...