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...week, including two coaches and six vice presidents of the Korea Skating Union, which oversees the national team. The coaches could not be reached for comment, but Lee Chi Sang, one of the vice presidents who resigned, calls the allegations "exaggerated" and insists coaches have the right to get rough. "To train the athletes to accomplish more, the coaches had no choice," says Lee. "It was not beating, it was not violence, it was punishment." It remains to be seen if the union will get a taste of its own medicine...
...penalty was called—a rare occurrence in a game that featured 19 fouls and two yellow cards, one to Barber after a rough tackle...
...rock-based albums before going decidedly electronic with Olé, Olé in 1995. In 1998, Diwan went gold - selling over 100,000 copies in France - fueled by the hit single Ya Rayah, a popular north African song of exile that takes on a roguish air with Taha's rough vocal. Despite some commercial success, Taha's mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation and beats, and his habit of singing in Arabic, has often led critics to classify his records as fusion or world music, a label that confounds him. Taha makes lavish use of traditional Arab instruments like...
...canonized Galaxie 500 didn’t receive much press during their rather brief existence, perhaps because the label that released their three excellent LPs between 1988 and 1990, U.K. press Rough Trade, went bankrupt at almost the same time Wareham announced that he was quitting the group. This left all of Galaxie 500’s music, albums as well as performances, virtually impossible to find...
...most likely award-winners. In both, he plays a slutty metrosexual who learns some important life lessons. He has sex with more women in Alfie, but Closer is rated R so it could edge out the tamer, less naked PG-13 Jude. But this could be a rough category. Jude goes arty with his role in David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees, playing his typical dispassion and narcissism in a film targeted primarily at a more intelligent crowd. Could fans of the existential Jude win out? Unfortunately, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a threat...