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...Hollywood, take some lessons," implores Russian coach Evgeny Platov, who despite a combustive partnership with Oksana (Pasha) Grishuk--"I went cuckoo"--faked love on ice to win gold medals with Grishuk in '94 and '98. Italian ice dancers Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio might have to pull an Oscar in Torino; they have consulted two psychologists to help them get along. But, insists Margaglio, "when I am on the ice, Barbara is my woman...
...Stehle and Cusworth. They wouldn’t let the preseason players of the year beat them. So, the current player of the year did.After the Crimson jumped out to a 19-9 lead with 7:52 left in the half, Brown center Mark McDonald nailed a three to pull the Bears back within seven. What followed might well be the best three minutes of Goffredo’s career.Freshman point guard Drew Housman found Goffredo on the subsequent possession, and Goffredo buried his second three of the game. Under a minute later, Housman again hit Goffredo, who nailed another...
...Afghanistan in the next two years? Yet that is what officials on both sides of the Atlantic are saying as the alliance faces up to the reality of its ambition, announced in February 2005, to take on a bigger role in Afghanistan. The Dutch parliament is now threatening to pull the plug on the Netherlands' 1,200-strong contribution to the expanded mission. The Netherlands is still gripped by the humiliation its country's troops suffered almost 10 years ago when they were taken hostage and then had to stand by as Muslims were herded out of Srebrenica...
...stress that the government needs a substantial majority in the 150-seat parliament - "more than just 75 and a handful," as one Foreign Ministry official said - to go ahead with the deployment. Even if the mandate for deployment is clear, there's a risk that coalition partner D66 may pull out of the government and trigger new elections. De Hoop Scheffer, until recently at the center of Dutch national politics, is now focused on the wider implications of these possible outcomes. And although he urges his compatriots to support the fresh deployment, he understands their need to debate the issue...
...Jack Abramoff scandal and President Bush still down in the polls,it won?t be easy: the Democrats need to capture 15 seats to control the House and six to win the Senate, and the party has lost ground in the last two congressional elections. But if anyone can pull it off, it's probably Emanuel, head of the Democratic campaign committee, and his Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer, of New York. ?These are the two most aggressive campaign committee chairman in modern American history,? said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political science professor...