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Anna Nicole Smith, winner of bogus multi-million-dollar lawsuits vs. Nancy Kerrigan, not winner at the Olympics after Tonya Harding had someone attack her with a crowbar...
...gets him. The situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where the plane lands safely-people in danger at end, no one killed...
...last time a female skater received an injury waiver onto the U.S. Olympic team, in 1994, it was Kwan who had to make way for Nancy Kerrigan despite finishing second at the nationals. Kerrigan was granted a spot after being struck on the knee by an accomplice of rival Tonya Harding during a practice session at nationals. "It's ironic that the last person bumped off the Olympic team was me in 1994," Kwan said. "But they do have rules for special circumstances...
...leaped to a third-place finish at the U.S. national championships last year by landing a spectacular--and clean--triple Axel, the most difficult jump for women to execute. That made her only the third woman in the world (after Japan's Midori Ito and the U.S.'s infamous Tonya Harding) to land the jump. With new rules in place for the Winter Games designed to make judges more accountable for their scores, perhaps this time skaters like Meissner, and not the judging, will take center...
...They want to see the high-angle helicopter shot...but they didn’t get that, so now it’s like, ‘Well, okay, let’s move on, get ready for the Super Bowl.’” Panelist Tonya Cropper, a student at the Kennedy School of Government and former New Orleans resident, also said that Americans have forgotten that the victims of Katrina are human like them.“Most people cannot identify themselves with black babies on the streets, elderly people on the streets. People will think...