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Boosting the leader's pole position have been runs of bad luck for the competition. Europe's mild winter has made mush out of slopes for downhill racing, in which Tomba never competes. As a boy, he was warned against that risky business by his mother--sound advice it may be, for injuries have also dogged his rivals. If there is a cloud on Tomba's horizon, it is Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, a five-time world champ. Girardelli finished 18th at Adelboden, but his third-place Cup total of 563 points still gives him a theoretical shot...
Gaarder, who is married and the father of two sons ages 10 and 18, teaches at a high school in Oslo. He wrote Sophie's World to fill a gap. Stores were full of New Age pap and other mystical mush, but there were no books that would introduce young people to serious philosophy. By trying to blend fantasy with head-cracking summaries of deep thought, Gaarder feared that he had "sat down between two stools. But I was mistaken. Sophie's World fell on top of all the stools...
...between ideals and interests has produced a mush of mixed signals since Clinton took office. After saying before he was elected that he would deny MFN to China, Clinton continued the policy last May, but only conditionally. He threatened a cutoff this spring if Beijing's human-rights record failed to demonstrate "overall significant progress." It hasn't. Now, says House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, Clinton "can't renew MFN unless he lies...
Lest you think I must have been a religious child, let me correct you now. I thought the Bible was just about the most exciting book I had ever read. I read it morning, noon and night (literally--that's the only way you could get through that mush of it in three weeks...
...Odessa Baiul skates at a rink where the ice is often like spring mush. She shares a little room with her coach's younger daughter, her best friend. Her idol is Rudolf Nureyev, whose pictures adorn the walls. Zmievskaya says her prize pupil "doesn't know what a million dollars is. All she knows is that she needs 10 fantiki ((candy wrappers)) to buy an ice cream...