Word: sonja
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...pressures of being a kid and not being a kid. Carlisle explains that the lapse occurred "because she collapsed so many years of her childhood into a very short period of time." She knew she had a shot at winning another Olympic gold medal in 1998 (Katarina Witt and Sonja Henie are the only women singles skaters to win more than one), but amateur skating's regimen and multiplicity of rules left her chagrined. So did the grueling professional schedule. And her body was changing, no longer the poised pubescence perfect for jumps and axels. Relearning her balance...
BORN: Dec. 12, 1956, McMinnville EDUCATION: Chemeketa Community College, A.A., 1977; Northwest Nazarene College, B.A., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Sonja Skurdal; five children RELIGION: Nazarene MILITARY: National Guard Reserve, 1987-93 OCCUPATION: Farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Oregon Senate, 1987-95; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5141, Salem...
...Games in Amsterdam as one of the guides for Knute Rockne's overseas cruise for football coaches. Indeed, Aileen seems to have led many lives. She became one of America's first female sportswriters. She danced for Busby Berkeley in Roman Scandals. She skated in a Sonja Henie movie and performed in the first Aquacade for Billy Rose, husband of her friend and fellow mermaid, Eleanor Holm...
...Hague, "People explain this war as revenge for atrocities done in the past that were never punished. We have got to stop that cycle." The countrymen of the perpetrators also need the balm of justice. "The only way we Serbs can escape collective guilt," says Human Rights Watch's Sonja Bisierka, "is to determine who individually is guilty, who personally was responsible, so not all Serbs are condemned alike...
...senior Sonja Martinez also says she has not been following the issues--but she knows that she would be voting for Dole...