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...coaches and six vice presidents of the Korea Skating Union, which oversees the national team. The coaches could not be reached for comment, but Lee Chi Sang, one of the vice presidents who resigned, calls the allegations "exaggerated" and insists coaches have the right to get rough. "To train the athletes to accomplish more, the coaches had no choice," says Lee. "It was not beating, it was not violence, it was punishment." It remains to be seen if the union will get a taste of its own medicine...
Iraq, by most accounts, continues to disintegrate. In the week before the U.S. election, an Iraqi national security aide to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi allowed that 5% of the recently trained Iraqi troops were probably terrorist infiltrators. "I love David Petraeus," a retired four-star general told me, referring to the U.S. officer in charge of training the Iraqi force. "But you can't train a soldier in six weeks. And you can't motivate a soldier who doesn't have a real government to fight for. It might change for the better if we can hold credible elections...
...nervous for [the trials] but you are also in such awe,” Hart said. “It makes you want to work harder and train so that you can do that again in four years...
...doing? What are we accomplishing by not sleeping? Sleep deprivation certainly doesn’t do anything for our physical appearance—getting a good night’s rest is crucial for good skin and surprisingly enough, for losing weight. Besides making you look like a train-wreck, sleep deprivation can make you feel disgusting as well: a lack of rest increases stress levels and reduces that elusive productivity that we’re all so worried about...
...forced to watch obese people struggle to lose as much weight as possible, or midgets marry normal sized people. While this can be entertaining when taken in small doses, the current state of television leaves me feeling like I’ve gotten aboard a sadistic freight train, bound for—eventually—live gladiatorial fights to the death (which would actually be really cool...