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...knee in downhill training at St. Moritz. The extra work required to get fit again, including long-distance running, cycling, gymnastics and even free diving, made her stronger and she came back to win eight consecutive World Cup slalom races of the 2000-01 season, as well as a slew of giant slalom and super-Gs. Her dominance in slaloms prompted Sweden's Pernilla Wiberg, a two-time Olympic champion, to consider that "she is definitely the best slalom skier in the world at the moment...
...automakers will have permission to distribute, sell and service their vehicles and to offer loans to customers. And the government has pledged to address the issue of regional protectionism, which renders a VW produced in Shanghai, say, twice as expensive in the remote province of Gansu, thanks to a slew of local fees and taxes...
...title; gaze fascinatedly at people in more trouble than they know; give lots of screen space and time to yearning stares; and, about 40 min. into the anomie, kill off a soulful son with a surprise gun blast. That's the recipe for In the Bedroom, which won a slew of critics' awards, and for Monster's Ball, a pained drama that is better than it sounds...
...embody some of its philosophies in her apologetic zeal for personal liberty, but analyzing gender no longer seems a priority to her. When asked about the topic, she admits she hasn’t thought much about it since Bitch, and struggles to articulate her position through a slew of personal anecdotes and desultory political tangents...
...Then the U.S. joined World War II (a phrase, incidentally, that was popularized by Time magazine), and Berlin produced a new slew of patriotic songs. At the request of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, he wrote "Any Bonds Today?" - best known in the Bugs Bunny rendition - that urged Americans to buy war bonds. Berlin assigned all royalties to the Treasury Department, then wrote a variation, for another fund-raising drive, called "Any Bombs Today?" Profits from his song "Angels of Mercy" went to the American Red Cross; from "Arms for the Love of America," to the Army Ordnance Department; and from...