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...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...
...Dancing Queen at fjord-rattling volume. Younger children might do better with Vtech's DJ Karaoke Studio ($39.99, ages 3 and older, available this fall), a surprisingly comprehensive little music machine with a working microphone, a one-octave keyboard and 24 preset tunes. There's even a baby scratch pad for extra flava...
...Sato, 36, who left his electronics company in Yokohama after 16 years and is now training to be a health-care aide, says he will be earning half of his previous salary in his new job. "None of my experience can be utilized," he says. "I am starting from scratch...
Well, it's tough to be a hero when you run a real global airline. If Ryanair's Michael O'Leary can bask in the glory of having built up a business almost from scratch, Eddington's lot in life is to try and fix what someone else broke. After rising through the ranks to lead Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, the former Rhodes scholar (he left Oxford with a doctorate in engineering) took the top job at Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt...
...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...