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...Thursday night the I.S.U. board met to draft its plan. Le Gougne, an international judge for 15 years, would be suspended indefinitely for failing to tell the skating union immediately that she had been approached by people seeking to sway her vote. The only equitable solution would be to award a second set of gold medals to Sale and Pelletier while allowing Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze to keep theirs. For the first time, an Olympic medal decision would be changed as a result of a judge's misconduct...
...money, Shays-Meehan would close a current loophole in election law that allows special interest groups and corporations to buy an unlimited amount of issue advertisements just before elections, as long as they avoid directly advocating voting for a certain candidate. The thinly-veiled message of these ads can sway an election at the last second without giving candidates a chance to respond...
...Muslim world who have called for Pearl’s release. The Pakistani police have named members of Islamic militant groups as the primary suspects, and we are heartened by the news of yesterday’s arrests. We hope that the voices of moderate Muslim clerics sway Pearl’s captors to release him. The Pakistani police have been working feverishly on this case, but have so far reported little success. We hope the U.S. uses every intelligence capability at its disposal to aid the Pakistanis in their efforts to find and rescue...
...What are my halftime options? Most people will stick with FOX for the extended break, to see a performance by U2, perhaps the world's most popular band. NBC hopes to sway viewers, at least temporarily, with a specially timed "Fear Factor," during which six Playboy Playmates will battle. Call it a reality show with fake breasts. A third option is to run to the store for more of those cocktail franks that are always gone within the first three minutes of the first quarter...
...London's Financial Times, the fact that the crisis had been visibly in the making for years acted to contain any international fallout. "Because the crisis has been predictable," wrote columnist Martin Wolf, "there may be minimal contagion to other borrowers." But Argentina's collapse will sway international thinking on currency convertibility and the debt levels that can be sustained by developing countries, and the role of the International Monetary Fund. "Senior officials at the Fund argue that the Fund is caught in a trap. If it refuses to support the government, it will be blamed for the chaos that...