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...first, short-track skating looks less like a sport than a kung-fu gang war on ice, the combatants wielding giant switchblades with their feet. Skaters jostle and bump around the perpetual curves of the 111-meter loop, and when one loses a jot of control, three are likely to careen across the water- slickened ice. But as Olympic spectators have seen, short-track racing is an intricate sport, replete with complex strategies. Since up to six skaters start at once, it has the drama of a pack of competitors struggling cheek to cheek -- battle like it oughta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In the Aftermath, Grousing About the U.S. | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

This is far from his best stuff. But Maher was so funny and on target--and in such complete control of the audience--that I was laughing too often and too hard to jot down most of his killer material. Many of his other memorable bits were dirty enough so as not to be publishable, though far from dirty enough to be offensive...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Square Life: | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...time defending co-champions began the year with one aim. "Our goal is to win it outright. "Coach jot said at season's start. That goal come screeching to and end last week at Penn...

Author: By Michoel D. Knobler, | Title: There'S Still a Chance' | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...system has been running smoothly and the computer faculty do jot anticipate anymore breakdowns of this sort, officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Apologize to Students For Delay in Computer Tests | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...debate was about one jot of punctuation, a comma. But the issue was a big one, namely the Republican Party's platform on the sensitive subject of tax increases. Meeting in Dallas last week, the party's platform subcommittee on economic policy began its deliberations with a staff-written version blessed by the White House. The draft declared that Republicans "oppose any attempts to increase taxes which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rallying Round a Comma Cause | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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