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...been privy to conversations in which judges agreed in advance on the outcomes. When she complained to skating officials, they demanded proof. So Senft brought a tape recorder with her to the Nagano games. On the day of the pairs competitions, she surreptitiously taped a phone call from a Ukrainian judge, Yuri Balkov, who asked her to vote for the Ukrainian skaters in exchange for his support for the Canadian skaters Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz...
...University distributes a booklet by the Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) outlining over 90 courses available in ethnic studies at Harvard, from ethnic conflicts around the world to Ukrainian literature. In a booklet that is supposed to outline courses in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies, why is “Questions of Identity in Central European Modernist Fiction” listed when there is only one course focusing on Latino studies? Harvard likes to be unique, but its interpretation of ethnic studies as any course related to ethnicity only confuses students, blurring area studies and ethnic...
Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology Michael S. Flier, who is acting chair of the department, declined to comment for this story, citing the confidentiality of the tenure process...
...been privy to conversations in which judges agreed in advance on the outcomes. When she complained to skating officials, they demanded proof. So Senft brought a tape recorder with her to the Nagano games. On the day of the pairs competitions, she surreptitiously taped a phone call from a Ukrainian judge, Yuri Balkov, who asked her to vote for the Ukrainian skaters in exchange for his support for the Canadian skaters Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz...
...Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...