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Firstly, you barely need legs: a person in irons could win a parapara competition. A partner is superfluous, rhythm dispensible and improvisation antithetical. To excell at parapara demands a single skill, and one very prized in Japan: rote memory. You learn the hand motions for each song, in order. You can be a leader or, more likely, a follower. The moves are dictated by those magazines and parapara videos, which means that the dance going on in Kyushu is the same as that in Hokkaido. It sounds incredibly easy except for this final fact: there are 1,600 songs...
...skill and success cannot be merely attributed to his honeymoon. The speech was a genuine success on its own. In its substance, it was effective at displaying diplomacy and bipartisan spirit. Even barbed references to "the way we did things in recent years," and veiled insults at the Clinton style ("We didn't take a poll") went over like honey. In his delivery Bush was personal and poised, well-spoken and witty. He displayed remarkable timing and confidence. In short, he worked the room the way Clinton used to--maybe better because Congress actually likes him. Also, Bush arrived...
...family into a van every Sunday for Mass at the same church FBI boss Louis Freeh attended. He and his wife Bonnie belong to the church's conservative Opus Dei society. Bonnie is a devout, spiritual woman, much admired among her neighbors for her sunny optimism and her skill at child rearing. If the reserved, aloof Hanssen was less popular, he was still regarded by those who knew him as a good father, good husband, good professional. And a good son. "He has always been very honest and upright," said his mother Vivian Hanssen, 88, reached by TIME...
...Amazon, having posted a loss in each of its five years in existence, may not know much about making money, but Bezos has promised investors a "pro-forma" profit (excluding debt payments and the like) by the end of 2001. No one doubts his company's skill at the e-tailing game - it's the game itself that has the shaky business model - and by now, Bezos must have learned pretty much all there is to know about how to squeeze every available penny to the utmost...
...inevitable backlash began, two arguments emerged. The one that drew more media attention charged that the test was inherently biased against blacks and Latinos, who to this day score worse on average than whites. The other was that SAT scores measure only the ability to take the SAT - a skill that, depending on your ability to pay, you could pick up in a coaching class (a growth industry that in 1999 alone raked in $400 million). Aside from that class inequality, the test's failure to measure anything meaningful also meant that kids were spending a lot of time fretting...