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...want to keep going," she says. "I know I'm capable of a lot more in skating, and I want to accomplish more. I want to be a legend. I want people to remember me after 1,000 years." Every so often, however, the rigors of perfection and the sting of memory give her pause. Backstage, as she waited before her long program last month, Kwan turned to her coach and asked, "Do you think people know what it's like to compete like this? How much tension and stress there is right now?" Before Carroll could respond, Kwan reverted...
...went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting on a former White House intern but reportedly planned to wire her to run one on the President himself, as if he were John Gotti...
Nonetheless, the Cuban government knows these five days are fraught with risk. The Pope has been as hard on Marxist repression as on "savage capitalism," and his critique of Castro's human-rights record in full view of 3,000 foreign journalists could sting. Instead of spotlighting a "normal" country at its most open, benign moment, the way Castro hopes, the press might fill their dispatches with lurid stories of teenage prostitutes and an oppressed, despairing citizenry...
...Taser's Auto Taser, a $250 steering-wheel lock, lets vengeful car owners dole out their own brand of punishment against would-be thieves. If break-in artists ignore the Auto Taser's wailing alarm, they're greeted with a 50,000-volt "nonlethal" electric shock. Talk about a sting operation...
...Lewinsky, he says, is "mentally devastated." He himself is "angry and upset" at the treatment his client received when the Linda Tripp wire sting went into operation. "How many FBI agents does it take to handle a 24-year-old girl?" Ginsburg asked. His claims: That she was detained by prosecutors for nine hours without counsel. That Kenneth Starr is treating her as "a target" in the investigation ? meaning no immunity ? and has threatened to subpoena her parents. That Starr wanted to wire Lewinsky ? and bug her conversations with the President himself. Starr fired back, issuing a statement that...