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Some coaches encourage romance to create the chemistry that enchants skating judges. John Baldwin and Rena Inoue, an off-ice couple, won the 2006 U.S. title and are headed for Torino. Platonic pairs like the world's top ice-dancing team, Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, must summon a skill so rare in great athletes--acting (ever see Shaquille O'Neal in Kazaam?). "Go to 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...
...should take note that the world is watching like a hawk. No meddling and cia-sponsored attempts to overthrow legitimately elected governments will be tolerated. It is not the '70s or '80s anymore. Play fair. Coenie Kukkuk Pretoria The Abode of Souls David van Biema's essay on the roman Catholic Church's changing its teaching on limbo took me back to the '50s, when I grew up attending a Catholic school [Jan. 9]. As described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death, unhappiness...
ELECTED. MICHELLE BACHELET, 54, physician and socialist; as Chile's first female President; in Santiago. An agnostic divorcé with three children, she was imprisoned and tortured under right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Her win is seen as a sign of a cultural shift in conservative, Roman Catholic Chile and was the latest in a series of leftist victories in Latin American elections...
David Van Biema's Essay "Life After Limbo"on the Roman Catholic Church's changing its teaching on limbo took me back to the '50s, when I grew up attending a Catholic school [Jan. 9]. As described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death, unhappiness or failure. I was absolutely furious that I had been baptized and was therefore ineligible for limbo. Heaven, on the other hand, involved endless God worshipping and constant harp strumming. It struck me as terribly boring. The only thing...
...between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious." Whatever problems there may be with the teaching of evolution, he argues, should be challenged on scientific grounds. Facchini's argument was not presented as an official Church position, but Osservatore Romano is often a vehicle for the Roman Curia to air its views...