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...Then on the backstretch as she accelerated, Ye claims she was obstructed on the lane changeover by the Soviet skater against whom she was paired. Ye nonetheless finished strongly, and her clocking of 40.51 was flashing in first place on the electronic timer when Blair set the toe of her left blade into the ice 10 minutes later...
Much like the old Politburo, this secret group ensures that its successors will toe the party line. Welcome to The Crimson! Granted, a newspaper's public responsibilities are different from those of a government, but the principles of accountability and inclusiveness are ones we should all live...
Triples are now the yardstick of the sport. They range in difficulty from the toe loop and Salchow, through the loop, flip and Lutz to the Axel, the ultimate challenge. Senior male competitors do triples routinely, but they are very tough for women who lack sufficient strength. One difference between watching on TV and seeing a competition is that at rinkside, spectators see all 20-odd contenders, not just the top handful. Among the lower rankings the number of falls is shocking. "There's a big element of risk," says Don Laws, who coached Scott Hamilton and knows that...
...opening night they appeared in Octet, a stringent black- and-white ballet set to an Edgar Meyer score. That was followed by a larky grand pas classique performed by Isabelle Guerin and Patrick Dupond, both visitors from the Paris Opera Ballet. Tharp says, "When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art." Perhaps that is why she can't help kidding ballet conventions. In her pas de deux the couple occasionally run out of steam or have to consult each other before hurling themselves into yet more...
...working class and poor are less likely to doubt government propaganda. When given the chance to talk to a foreigner, they invariably ask, "Why is ! Bush punishing the Iraqi people? Why does he hate us?" But when one young woman, robed from head to toe, asks that question, a group of men get out of a pickup truck and stop her from speaking. When they turn their attention to a nearby government official, an older man hustles her away, out of trouble...