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...world, there was speculation that someone had leaned on Le Gougne to vote for the Russians in exchange for Russia's vote for the French team in the ice-dancing competition. One Olympic skating judge, who asked to remain anonymous, insisted to TIME that a deal had been struck: "The French have been trying to figure out how to win in ice dancing. I know Gailhaguet has been working for those votes...
Talking to Rufus I was struck by how much his speaking voice is like his singing voice. I realize that I’m not the first to note this, but it seems to me that the close relationship between Rufus’ way of speaking and singing says something about his music and his way of performing. The songs that Rufus writes are to a large degree very specifically related to experiences he has had or thoughts that arise from them. His songs seem integrated into his life in general; just as there is very little distance between...
...what I think or that I’ve been seen at Living Wage rallies and elsewhere. And so they talk to me in the bathroom of the Faculty Club between meetings. I was at the fall meeting of the Alumni Association this past weekend, and I was so struck by the number of people who assumed that this problem was something that was generated by West. They assumed that this was something Cornel West blew out of proportion. They assumed that Cornel West had made this a problem. They assumed that Summers had a legitimate grudge because they assumed...
...similar situation is shaping up in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where rival clans have begun to try to use the U.S. military for their own ends. The U.S. military admitted this week that it had killed and captured the wrong people when it struck what it believed to be a Taliban stronghold in the town of Uruzgan three weeks ago. U.S. commanders were forced to apologize and offer financial compensation...
...IRAN Warring Words Iran responded angrily to continued U.S. claims that it is developing weapons of mass destruction. One military leader warned of "another Vietnam" if the U.S. struck Iran, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the U.S. would find itself in a "bloody swamp." Amid the rhetoric was one sign of detente: after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iran of trying to destabilize the interim Afghan government, Tehran said it may deport an Afghan warlord who opposes the Kabul regime...