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Common ground was a scarce commodity at Thursday's all-day health care summit in Washington. "Let's talk about some areas where we disagree and see if we can bridge those gaps," President Obama had implored at the outset. But by the end of the session more than seven hours later, it was clearer than ever that the two parties have fundamentally - and irreconcilably - different views of how to go about fixing the nation's health care system...
...While all week Kim denied feeling burdened by those expectations, she had clearly bottled up some anxiety that needed a release on Thursday. Just after hitting her final pose, she broke down in tears, unable to believe that all the anticipation about the Olympics was finally over. "I still can't believe my performance," she said. "I don't know why I cried. I think I thought it might not turn out well, so when I finished my program, I felt good...
...Beast from the East. But for the first time in Olympic history, Asian skaters stood upon the podium in three of the four figure-skating events. With South Korea's Kim Yu-Na winning a gold medal and Japan's Mao Asada a silver with their skates on Thursday, Feb. 25, athletes from the Far East earned five of the 12 figure-skating medals in Vancouver. It's the highest haul so far in the sport at the Olympics for those from the Pacific Rim, and it signals the beginning of what many anticipate will be a shift...
...pressure on both skaters to perform was nearly suffocating, as media coverage of their every practice was documented for millions back home in video and print. When arena officials arrived to open the doors on Thursday at 5:45 a.m., there was already a knot of Japanese cameramen ready to rush in and grab prime shooting spots; rumors were that they had spent the night outside the arena. (See the top 10 worst figure-skating costumes...
...that tensions have subsided. The exact nature of the alleged evidence against the officers, for example, has yet to be made public. And it's unclear how the military will respond if the former heads of the air force and navy - both of whom appeared in an Istanbul court Thursday to testify to their involvement in the alleged coup plot - are arrested pending trial. "Turkey is clearly in uncharted territory now and it is very difficult to predict how this crisis could evolve," Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst for the London-based think tank Eurasia Group, wrote in a report...