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...champion Viktor Petrenko, who has always acted as a kind of older brother to Baiul. But they have been drifting apart. "She had kind of stepped away from the real hard work on the ice," Petrenko told TIME. "She's just enjoying her life." That included adding a new layer of friends, like Ari Zakarian, 30, the Russian-trained skater who was a passenger in her car the night of the accident. In the days after the crash, he slipped away to Switzerland. Reached by TIME, he said, "The accident, in my opinion, was not because she was drunk...
Seltzer describes herself as "a systems person," meaning she designs the layer of software between the computer hardware and user applications. Seltzer is best known for her work on file systems which must efficiently transfer data between applications and a storage medium like a hard disk...
Scenes III-VII: The children continue their search for Santa, from city to city and through layer after layer of subcontractors, while Cruella, leading her own army of death-dealing action figures, pursues them. Jack Nicholson in his Joker outfit shows up somewhere along the way as, say, a Hong Kong-based export-import whiz, and at one point Jack and Cruella break into a duet: "Tiny wages for tiny people/ That's the way it goes/ They're lucky to have work/ As everybody knows/ You don't need money anyway, if you're only eight...
...York is named after the animal (no). The task was a tedious one but I actually found it somewhat entertaining. A former co-captain of my high school's quiz bowl team, I discovered that it appealed to my inner nerd. But beyond that, I sensed that under the layer of minutiae I had an immense responsibility. I felt a tremendous power in ensuring, even in the most minor of details, that my magazine printed only the truth...
...scarcity. Only amid the material abundance that came with agriculture and grew thereafter could self-indulgence regularly reach grotesque levels. (Sodom and Gomorrah lay in the fertile plains. Their residents sinned amid plenty while Abraham herded his flock in rustic innocence on dryer terrain.) Similarly, anger acquired a new layer of evil with the invention of knives and spears, to say nothing of guns...