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Miller, by contrast, has had to make her peace with the attention that attends world-class competition. "Shannon's always had the talent, but would never take her eyes off the floor," says her balance-beam coach, Peggy Liddick. "She's had to overcome her shyness and learn to play to a crowd." Miller masks well the ego that helped get her to this point. She does not read her own press clips and refuses to watch videotapes of her performances, except for training purposes. "I would rather do gymnastics than watch it," she says...
...price of liberation has been high. Life under the Soviet system may have been constricted, but it was comfortable. Staffs were huge: the Kirov is a little city of 3,000 citizens that includes the world-class ballet company, also on a U.S. tour. The occasional visiting Western choreographer or director found the system byzantine, but Gergiev takes a long view: "In Russia everything is impossible, but at the end of the day, things get done...
...sense, Perot was only fulfilling his promise to provide his supporters with "a world-class campaign" when he recruited Republican Ed Rollins and Democrat Hamilton Jordan to guide his effort. They, in turn, have signed experienced operatives from both parties to lend the crusade an air of professionalism. In conjunction with several of Perot's former business associates, the team will determine campaign strategy, look for a running mate and help shape the candidate's stands on at least a few major issues. But the , transition from grass-roots petition drives to a high-tech political offensive has run into...
...World-Class Excellence...
According to the senator, the nation will "not get to world-class excellence" if the public education system remains intact. Barrett advocates longer hours in school, standardized testing, standard minimum expectations for curriculum, a school choice system based on the Cambridge public school system and a unique proposal for an "hour-glass" distribution of authority in the school system...