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...athletic department should not only be applauded for its efforts in securing the Stephenson endowment, but encouraged to search out more endowments for other sports--particularly those on shakier financial foundations...
...ascendance has not been without growing pains. In the past few months, discord has broken out in the ranks of his party and a number of dissidents have pulled away. Still, the L.D.P. has mustered impressive leverage in parliament. Moreover, as Yeltsin's power base grows shakier, Zhirinovsky's brand of shoot-from-the-hip populism has enabled him to bully his way into the small group of candidates vying to be the next President of Russia. "There is a great danger that someone like Zhirinovsky could take over," says Yuli Guzman, a parliamentary Deputy from the democratic Russia...
...naive but inspired -- sublimely expressive of the changeling that Baiul is. Her Friday long program, which secured the prize, was shakier, but she moved with rare, sinuous rhythms on the ice. And, irony of ironies, she was recovering from her own injuries suffered the day before. Her physical pain was evident, framing her performance with agony more immediate than the video memories of Kerrigan weeping in Detroit seven weeks ago. The bizarre accident in which the Ukrainian collided with a German competitor during practice had created not only a new victim but prepared the way for a new heroine. Baiul...
...looks rather threadbare. Some cities maintain public-defender offices % to provide attorneys to indigent defendants. Well-funded offices can often afford attorneys who specialize in criminal law and even capital crimes. But a number of states -- including several Southern states with the nation's highest execution rates -- use a shakier system of court-appointed lawyers selected from a list of local attorneys. Many are either young attorneys fresh out of school or older ones who ordinarily specialize in the bread-and-butter work of title searches or divorce litigation...
...George Bush's war policy, when you look at it, turns out to be shakier and more questionable than its results," Gelb told the audience of about 150. "Further, his post-war policy has revealed itself as a total confusion of aims...