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Skaters can also get tripped up by a judge's cultural bias, with scores dividing along geopolitical lines. Russian and Eastern European judges, with their deep association with ballet and theater, tend to prefer skaters with classical styles, while Westerners are more receptive to contemporary moves. And prejudging is practically a requirement. Judges are 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...
...WHAT JUDGES LOOK FOR The most important aspect of a good Lutz is a clean outside edge on the takeoff. The U.S. women, including Kwan, above, tend to "flutz," or fudge it by shifting from the outside to the inside edge just before launching into the air. Sarah Hughes has been particularly penalized for this flaw, and to correct the problem, she does not enter the jump with as deep an outside edge...
...four professors who have agreed to participate in the program, Porter and Mansfield tend toward the conservative side while Kamarck and Allison are liberals...
Defenders of the traditional disciplines describe them as if they guaranteed both an authentic relation to the past and the survival of critical reason itself. They tend to suggest that if students are thinking about things like personal identity, sexuality, or the experience of gender, they are not thinking. I’d suggest that the opposite is true: students do their best thinking when they engage the complexities and difficulties that the “real world” so richly provides...
Before sentencing, criminals often call witnesses to testify that their incarceration would hurt society more than it would help it. But these claims rightly tend to focus on the harm that would be done to the defendant’s family, not to the world of academia. The scientific consequences of a person’s incarceration pale in comparison to the damage that can be done by, for example, splitting apart a family...