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Enter challenger Michael Weiss, 21, who's been beefing up his rebel routine. He pumps iron with his father Greg, a former Olympic gymnast, for an hour every day in addition to half an hour of cardiovascular training, 45 minutes of stretching and four hours of skating. "Not being one of the favorites, it'll be important for me [at Nagano] to have something extra," he says candidly. That something extra is the elusive quad, the Holy Grail of men's competition--four revolutions and a one-foot landing. No American man has ever managed to nail one in competition...
Many in Ball's family protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
...Madeleine Albright chides rebel-turned-President Laurent Kabila in Congo. And misses the big picture...
...against them should not eat them. We cannot hope to effectively pressure our peers not to eat them. We cannot hope to effectively pressure our peers not to eat them because most are too apathetic to be receptive and others will secretly rejoice in the opportunity to so subtly rebel against repressive liberal forces. While the significance of Harvard's boycott will be lost--and cannot be recovered by merely reducing the quantity of grapes ordered by reducing demand--we should stick to our point and forego the grapes...
...Plus business is picking up in Angola, the world?s per capita leader in active land mines (more than 9 million) and land mine victims (around 90,000). According to a U.N. report Thursday, rebel forces are actually re-planting mines along major highways previously cleared of the weapons ? the three-year old peace accord notwithstanding...