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...stumble on the side-by-side double Axel. Berezhnaya's landings on the throw jumps were also not as smooth as Sale's. Though the Russians peppered their program with innovative moves--at one point Berezhnaya opened into a spread eagle with Sikharulidze clinging to her in a spiral--Sale and Pelletier were a miracle of unity...
...with the utmost care. Standards must be clarified across departments and within individual classes in order to ensure a fair grading system. Convincing professors to take a personal, active interest in the grades their students receive will not be easy, but it is essential to reversing the upward spiral of Harvard’s grades...
Plenty of issues remain. Japan's banks have $1 trillion in bad loans on their books, and there is no comprehensive plan for dealing with the mess. The slumping economy will push earnings down 20% or so this year, and a deflationary spiral is keeping just about everyone from making any meaningful investment in the stock market. So prices keep drifting lower. Amazingly, the bellwether Nikkei stock average is now at levels first reached in 1984, down 73% from the 1989 peak...
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To prove that Our Fun can’t be spoiled by Some Whiny Minority? Let’s find a new way to decorate, one that generates festivity and spirit instead of bad analogies. I recommend bright fabric, big jars of pasta and squashes with wigs...
...championship-caliber team bounces back and dusts itself off and comes back the next day. Not to say we didn’t have guys who really wanted to win, we just didn’t have the mental toughness. We let it slip just enough to let it spiral in on itself...