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...event was announced. First, House Republican leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor sent the White House an open letter calling on the President to scrap the existing Democratic reform bills and "start over." This idea gained no traction, and Republicans realized they could not skip the meeting - it's hard politically to turn down an invitation to be bipartisan. Boehner then sent a follow-up open letter deriding congressional Democrats for "plotting legislative trickery" to pass health reform. (See 10 health care reform players...
...especially in Britain - are asking whether or not those governments were forewarned of the operation. Meanwhile, Dubai is demanding that Interpol issue an arrest warrant for the chief of Mossad. While such an action is unlikely, the moderate Arab city-state's commitment to pursue the case will be hard for its Western allies to ignore. (See Dubai and the world's tallest building...
When German curling skip Andy Kapp yells at his teammates, imploring them to sweep their brooms faster, he sounds as if someone has poured scorching-hot water on his head. "Arrrgh!" his grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that...
...fence about ice dancing," admits Shawn Johnson, a four-time medalist at the Beijing Games in 2008 in gymnastics and a winner of Dancing with the Stars. "I never really watched it before. But having gone through Dancing with the Stars, it gives me a new appreciation for how hard they work for it," she says. And as a former competitor, she couldn't help but play armchair judge after watching the second of the three ice-dancing events in Vancouver. "Having been criticized on Dancing, I could see the different mistakes," she says. (See TIME's coverage...
...partner in lifts. Ballroom dancing, says Johnson, who won her season of DWTS in 2009, is also harder than it looks. "You don't get an appreciation of it just by watching it," she says. "But if you actually get into it and do it, it's rigorous, hard, and takes a lot of training and dedication. As soon as you do it, you're like, 'Wow.' " (The appeal does indeed cut both ways. On Feb. 19, Cheryl Burke, a two-time Dancing champion, tweeted Evan Lysacek, the newly crowned Olympic men's figure-skating champion: "You're truly amazing...