Word: russianizing
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...sport," Sale said, "the truth still has to come out." Slowly, some of it began to. Le Gougne reportedly told the panel that it was her own federation's president, Didier Gail-haguet, who had influenced her. The idea was that by helping Russia to a gold, a Russian judge might return the favor in ice dancing, in which France is a favorite. (There is suspicion, but no evidence, of Russian collusion in the incident...
...consider the politically protected Virginia-class submarine. The Navy wants more than $60 billion to build a fleet of 30 of these attack subs over the next 25 years. With warming U.S.-Russian relations--and the era of submarine battles 50 years in the past--the Navy is emphasizing the sub's intelligence-gathering potential and its ability, like surface ships and airplanes, to fire cruise missiles. Powerful lawmakers from the two sub-building states--Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman and Virginia's John Warner--are among the sub's champions, so there's a strong political push to produce...
...entire Soviet-beating 1980 U.S. "miracle on ice" hockey team light the torch--reminding the world, once again, how we won the cold war--it felt O.K. Sure, it might have been even nicer to let Eruzione light it with Slava Fetisov, the great Soviet captain and current Russian coach whom he beat. That could have made for a nice demonstration of post-cold war togetherness. But why try to kid anybody? If global events after Sept. 11 proved anything, it's that the U.S. is now the only superpower in the game. One thing that means is that everyone...
...early 1990s, I attended a Washington lunch at which Admiral William Crowe, who had just retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked about taking his Soviet counterpart to visit the admiral's hometown in Oklahoma. The Russian general wanted to know what holiday was being celebrated. None, Crowe told him; his neighbors just flew the flag from their stoops as a matter of course...
...Cinquanta insisted last week that there was no evidence of Russian involvement in the judging scandal. He also promised a continuing investigation. But once the Olympic committee decided to give Sale and Pelletier the gold, the Canadian Olympic Association dropped its request to have the matter go before the more independent sports arbitration court. That means that any investigation will continue largely within the more secretive confines of the I.S.U...