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...magazine this week, senior reporter ALICE PARK profiles Long Island skater Sarah Hughes, the 16-year-old who, along with established star Michelle Kwan and the mesmerizing Sasha Cohen, completes the strongest U.S. figure-skating trio since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Talk with Park about the U.S. team on Wednesday...
...talented U.S. women's figure-skating team heading to Salt Lake City, Hughes will be facing off with Kwan and Sasha Cohen for Olympic gold in what promises to be the most intense battle of the blades in a decade. The three make up the strongest U.S. contingent since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding last stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Yamaguchi and Kerrigan delivered, winning gold and bronze, respectively, while Harding finished fourth. "With all the girls skating so well and peaking at the right time, it certainly makes sense to talk about sweeping again...
...semi-stalking personality. Not in the short film program, but featured before the film Boy Named Sue, is the 13-minute film XXXY by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh. This emotionally gripping short film centers on two people who were born intersex—Kristi, a bike messenger, and Howard, a clinical psychologist. Their stories share the common pain of being raised after having undergone corrective genital surgery as children. Fighting against a world in which doctors make arbitrary choices about children’s sex and gender, independent of their parents...
After the Crimson's disappointing loss on Friday, it immediately tore into the Tigers. Sophomore Sanja Bajin teamed up with co-captain Sanaz Ghazal at No. 1 doubles to defeat Gailor Large and Avanti Bhargava 8-3. Crimson juniors Andrea Magyera and Fleur Broughton then took out Kristi Watson and Meleya McCoy8-1 at the No. 2 spot to win the doubles point...
...their work was seen as part of another alternative birthing method. But in the past three years, there has been a remarkable rise in the demand for their services. Doulas of North America, which trains and certifies doulas, has 3,500 members--up from 750 in 1995, according to Kristi Ridd-Young, DONA's administrative director. "Part of this increase stems from the fact that the consumer is taking birth back into her own hands and wants to be a part of the decision process," says Ridd-Young. "Also, it's a natural instinct to gather the right kind...