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...this feel-good story quickly turned bad. During the night, the whales, all dutifully tagged in the morning, beached themselves again, in a salt marsh 25 miles away. By the time good seamaritans got to them, six of the whales were dead and nine others had such weak heartbeats that scientists knew they would not make it. Even those that could be refloated soon returned to shore, oblivious to the frantically splashing rescuers trying to shoo them off. By evening, all the whales--mostly females, some of them pregnant--were dead...
Italian and U.S. officials last week fingered Tokhtakhounov, 53, a bull-headed Uzbek long linked with the Russian Mafia, as the mind behind the skating scandal at last winter's Salt Lake City Olympics, when tumble-down Russian pairs skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won gold over Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian duo who gave a demonstrably superior performance. Now implicated in the mess are the gold-winning French ice-dance team of Russian-born Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat. Anissina and her mother are the two women believed to be caught on tape talking with Tokhtakhounov...
...answer, at least in Salt Lake City, was that some of them were foolish to think their knavery would go undetected. A day after the pairs final, a French judge admitted she had been pressured to favor the Russians' klutzy turn over the Canadians' sublime skate. The ensuing uproar, which resulted in the awarding of gold medals to both teams, cast a pall on the International Skating Union and the high-strung community of ice divas. But until now, who imagined...
...Beyond Manututo, a hot and dusty seaside town where boys with deflated footballs at their feet dream of being Beckham, the country opens up. From here the road cuts through lush rice paddies, across salt pans and alongside mangrove swamps, traversing desolate country more characteristic of outback Australia than Asia...
...ARRESTED. ALIMZHAN TOKHTAKHOUNOV, 53, Uzbekistan-born, high-profile Russian mobster who was suspected of rigging several beauty contests in Moscow during the early 1990s; for conspiring to fix skating matches in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics; in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Tokhtakhounov is accused of manipulating results in the ice dancing and pairs skating events so that gold medals would be awarded to the French and the Russian teams, respectively. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. SENTENCED. FIKRET (BABO) ABDIC, 63, once considered to be the richest...