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...Still, the last couple of years haven't been all smooth gliding for Korea's golden boy and best-bet medal contender in Salt Lake City. At the 2000 World Championships in England, he had both arms severely cut when he fell under Chinese competitor Li Jiajun's blades during a race. He didn't even know he was injured until he saw the ice turning red. In a few months, though, he was back in the rink, once more sweeping up golds in the short-track event at the World Cup in Calgary. "I pull myself together immediately when...
...Clinton. Friday, perhaps in an attempt to broadcast his inclusive intentions, Ashcroft's aides said his primary candidate for deputy attorney general is Larry D. Thompson, a black lawyer who was a U.S. district attorney in Georgia during the Reagan administration. Of course, while Thompson's nomination might conceivably smooth a few feathers, it would probably ruffle at least as many - Thompson was one of Clarence Thomas's primary backers during the Supreme Court Justice's acrimonious confirmation battle...
...Davis now has a matter of days, not only to smooth the feathers of his regional neighbors, but also to put that $10 billion to work on deals with power producers to sustain California for the two or three years before enough new power plants are online to bring supply back up, and market prices back down...
...trend toward Tibet Chic hasn't always been smooth. When Dadawa released her first album in England in 1995, she angered both Tibetans and Chinese. Tibetan independence activists accused her of exploiting the culture; some protested outside the London office of her label Warner Records. Back in China, her songs became a sensation among Tibetans when they heard on the background track of her biggest hit the voice of a woman praising, in Tibetan, the current Dalai Lama?the government discovered the track two days after awarding Dadawa its equivalent of a Grammy. She had to recall and re-edit...
...fact, Ashcroft's religious substance is also fairly smooth. As the Assemblies' members became more affluent, the group de-emphasized its more unusual practices, including the once central gift of tongues. Ashcroft has followed suit. Says his longtime friend, Assemblies official George Wood: "I have never in a service observed John expressing one of what we call the charismatic gifts." Nor does he mention them in his book, despite much talk of God and Christ. Instead, he is known as a writer of gospel songs and a punctilious churchgoer who once, while Missouri Governor, surprised a Sunday-school teacher...