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...Palestinian Authority and broker a cease-fire. That will be extremely difficult to achieve without Arafat's political authority, and that may be why Bush's comments on Arafat sounded like a final warning. Still, negotiating the terms on which Arafat leaves his underground bunker will require some delicate footwork from Powell...
...vote trading, favoritism and collusion among judges who agree on the winners before the unknowing losers even start their routines. At the world championships three years ago, two judges from Russia and Ukraine were suspended for signaling to one another with their feet. Skating is full of fancy footwork, but we like to think it's confined to the skaters...
...their field. But the very nature of the judging process in figure skating, which does not rely on clocks or tape measures, allows them to inject personal and national prejudices. Skaters are scored on two standards. Technique--things like the speed of their jumps and the intricacy of their footwork--is supposed to be the more objective of the two. Artistry is plainly in the eye of the beholder. There are no tape measures to judge originality, harmonious composition or the matching of movement to music...
...Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, it was a much more trying week. "This kind of scandal, the TV people, the media, they make our life harder," said Sikharulidze. This situation makes us very unhappy." Their coach, Tamara Moskvina, insisted that their transitions and footwork were superior to the Canadians'. She stressed that her side did not protest the result of last year's World championships in Vancouver, when Sale and Pelletier beat the Russians. "We considered that Yelena and Anton won, but it went to the other couple," she said. "We just accepted...
...We’re not quick enough with our footwork. The game was much slower at Harvard,” Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said Friday. “Tonight there were fewer stoppages. When you need to chase Ugonna and Archibong around, that’s a problem for our team...