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Goofy or not, the shredders, long the muskrats of the mountain to the stately Alpine skiers, saved American pride on the snow during the first week of the Olympics. Bode Miller proved better on the dance floor than the slopes, finishing a disappointing fifth in the downhill, getting disqualified in the combined after taking the lead and not finishing the super-G. Lindsey Kildow wishboned her skis during a terrifying practice-run crash in the women's downhill and was air-lifted to a hospital in Torino. Miraculously, she raced two days later but finished eighth. Only the surprise winner...
...Gilbert was going through a painful, sobbing-on-the-bathroom-floor divorce. So she pulled an Under the Tuscan Sun and embarked on a year of travel, divided neatly into thirds like a tub of Neapolitan ice cream. She would visit Italy to explore pleasure, India to study devotion and Indonesia to look into whatever people do in Indonesia ("balance" is her word for it). Then she would write an engaging, intelligent and highly entertaining memoir about it called Eat Pray Love (Viking; 352 pages...
...DIVA GETS STOOD UP Upon arriving in Torino, U.S. national figure-skating champ JOHNNY WEIR admitted to being "princessy" when he travels. He complained that his Olympic Village quarters were cramped and so dusty that he had to mop the floor himself. Entering the free program in second place, Weir lost focus, shuffling his elements around and finishing fifth. Turns out that two hours before skating, he had been waiting in the cold for a bus that never came. Maybe he's got a point about crummy service...
...talk with them for hours.”At a second settlement, Bedolach, in the southeastern section of Gaza, Oren said that he and his fellow soldiers broke through synagogue walls, finding 100 men, women and children “on the floor, screaming in agony.” According to Oren, he and his fellow soldiers were shell-shocked by the scene. “I saw soldiers go down as if they had been hit by bullets. There were settlers helping soldiers to their feet. Everyone was crying hysterically,” he said.Oren explained that the Gaza...
Lees is one of two lawmakers who run Senate floor sessions, and the process by which bills are postponed is fairly informal, according to Lees’s legal counsel Daniel J. Connelly...