Word: shen
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Russian figure skaters can take a patriotic turn to Tchaikovsky. Americans can glide to Gershwin. But nobody in the skating community has heard of Xian Xinghai, one of China's premier composers. And that's a problem for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the skating duo who rank among China's top medal hopes for the Salt Lake City Games. "If we choose to skate to the most famous Chinese music," says Zhao, "no one will even recognize it, which puts us at a big disadvantage. It isn't really fair...
...time world champion runners-up, Shen and Zhao possess an awesome array of technical tricks. They hope to become the first pair of skaters to include a quadruple-throw Salchow in their Olympic routine. But the duo has been consistently marked down for a lack of artistic flair. Judges look for the grace, fluidity and lyricism that the great Russian partners bring to the sport, a prejudice that fans of a more athletic style of skating have long criticized. Now an aggrieved Shen and Zhao have added a new dimension to that complaint: they (and their supporters) feel they...
...Jenny I. Shen '01, a chemistry concentrator and co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, said she looks forward to the opportunity to discuss diversity in science and technology with professors and peers...
Former Co-President Jenny I. Shen '01 attributed the low turnout to reading period as well as the small number of positions that were being contested...
...Yibei Shen contributed to the reporting of this story...