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...haveJust in case you've forgotten been thin but she still won races. During the 1996-97 season Janica won all 22 junior races she entered. Despite that impressive record, in her first World Cup season, 1998-99, her third place in a slalom event at Park City, Utah, took officials by surprise. They couldn't find a Croatian flag for the award ceremony and Janica...
...Japanese point out that other colonial powers such as the French and British filled their museums with booty collected from their sprawling empires. Japanese officials and scholars contend they rediscovered and helped to preserve the glories of ancient Korea, which the Koreans had long forgotten. Says Lee Sungsi, a professor of Korean literature at Tokyo's Waseda University: "The Koreans keep accusing Japan of stealing but the Japanese think they did something good. They think they should be thanked...
...month appealed the dismissal. All along, the Mormon church has tried to keep the scandal at arm's length-Hinckley says he had instructed the church to remain strictly "neutral" in every aspect of the Olympics. The hope is that by the opening ceremonies, the scandal will be largely forgotten...
...scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed away as a routine (if depressing) example of the outsized role of money in modern politics. Until now, that...
Last summer, while teaching my niece, 16, to drive, I got my own turbo-charged lesson about the teen relationship to the road. In my dotage, I had forgotten the driving principles that every teen seems to live by--for instance, that fast is really good, especially when you're going around a corner. A rearview mirror works really well for checking out how nice your sunglasses look, and every maneuver is enhanced if you can casually dangle your left elbow out the window. After spending two months riding shotgun with a teen, I completely understood why my friend Nancy...