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...closed and move on. "This absolutely needs to be aired," says Claire Ferguson, an eight-year member of the I.S.U. Council. For that matter, attention must be paid to shady judging throughout the world of figure skating and sports in general. Are the Olympics competitions or just "games"? To retain any credibility, they need to be judged in keeping with some principle higher than "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." The athletes deserve nothing less. For that matter, so do the rest...
Bergman and Lingman also carried the Crimson banner against the Georgia Tech. Although they fell 9-8 in their doubles match, the freshman pair managed to retain their composure and win their singles matches...
...just not true," says Robert Arnott, who manages $15 billion for institutional investors at First Quadrant L.P. in Pasadena, Calif. "The more money that companies retain to invest in the future, the worse their future turns out to be." Consider that Priceline wrote off $67 million in 2000, partly from its goofy venture into groceries and gasoline, while Amazon incinerated $233 million by "investing" in dotbombs like Webvan and Ashford.com Last year, jds Uniphase booked the biggest loss ever recorded--$56 billion--as it wrote off the costs of its overpriced acquisitions...
...health care. That delighted pro-life advocates, as did Justice's backing of an Ohio effort to revive a state law forbidding so-called partial-birth abortion. Handing out plums to the right is meant to galvanize conservative voters so the G.O.P. can regain control of the Senate (and retain the House), and thus give Bush a major boost on the way to the '04 election...
...closed and move on. "This absolutely needs to be aired," says Claire Ferguson, an eight-year member of the I.S.U. Council. For that matter, attention must be paid to shady judging throughout the world of figure skating and sports in general. Are the Olympics competitions or just "games"? To retain any credibility, they need to be judged in keeping with some principle higher than "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." The athletes deserve nothing less. For that matter, so do the rest...