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...encouraged to attend practices to see what the skaters can do. When they start judging, however, they reserve their highest marks for whoever they think will be the best skater--dampening prospects for early performers. Tricky jumps and graceful lines are still crucial, but in skating, luck and whim may carry...
According to the Geneva Convention, classification as a non-POW is done by an independent third party, not on a whim. And if those who are detained are not pows, they should be charged with a specific crime. LEIF STORM Regina, Sask...
...Oyamada's whole career, somehow, seems like a whim that has grown into a full-time job. Even the inspiration for his pseudonym was arrived at by happenstance. For several nights following Flipper's Guitar's breakup in 1991, Oyamada would come home late and zone out in front of the TV, watching old Planet of the Apes series reruns...
Gellert was a throwback in that regard. In high school, he took up football in his senior season on a whim, because a buddy encouraged him to come out for the team. In that one season, he broke a 26-year old interceptions record and, as a receiver, caught 90 balls, the most of anyone in state history since...
Person of the Week CHOSEN ONE Tapped to head the six-month interim Afghan government, ethnic Pashtun Hamid Karzai quickly promised amnesty to rank-and-file Taliban, and Western justice for top leaders and foreign fighters. But the rickety Bonn agreement could collapse at the whim of rogue warlords...