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...rightly pride themselves on their objectivity, but in special cases personal involvement can be deeply gratifying. Just ask TIME correspondent Ann Blackman. As a member of our Moscow bureau in 1987, Blackman was struck by the plight of a family of Jewish refuseniks she met. Her daughter Leila and Vera Zieman became friends. Yuri and Tanya Zieman, who had % been trying vainly to emigrate to the U.S., led a lonely life of outcasts. "We spent countless hours at their kitchen table," Blackman says, "sipping tea and learning firsthand how difficult Soviet life was for average people...
Kerrigan should be proud of her cleanly skated performance. She had energy to burn and was perhaps hampered by statelier-than-thou choreography. If they awarded prizes for costumes, she would have prevailed. Her dress, designed as always by Vera Wang, had the kind of unobtrusive elegance that enhances rather than jars a performance. By contrast, Baiul wore a fussy pink concoction trimmed with fake fur that broke her line. Most of the other dresses were nightclub glitz...
...conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader's attention from the first page: "I had walked from Gaga's in Marstons Mills to Mashpee, where Dada was living with Vera, his Wampanoag woman, and when I got there he was black-out drunk and she was gone. I looked at Dada lying on the floor and made sure he was not dead." The resemblance to Huck Finn does not appear to be coincidental. Not only is her father a soak...
...interesting tidbit of evidence buried in the 123 pages of statements lent support to Gillooly's claims that Harding was in on the plot from the start. Four days before Gillooly began testifying, a part-time sports journalist, Vera Marano of Pennsylvania, was questioned by investigators. Marano, who says she has been friends with Harding since 1990, testified that she had received several calls from Harding around Christmastime. Harding, she said, asked for two pieces of information about Kerrigan: Where did she train? And did she own property on Cape Cod? Harding explained that she was interested because...
...food they offer is unhealthy," says Feliciano D. Vera '97. "The red meats are too fatty and much of the food is cooked...