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SHAQUILLE "THE BIG EVERYTHING" O'NEAL AGE: 28 HEIGHT: 7 ft. 1 in. WEIGHT: 315 lbs. OCCUPATION: Frightening large men, missing free throws BEST PUNCH: Claims Kobe hurts his team by shooting too much: "When people said this was my team, we went 67-15, and we won the whole thing... I don't know why anybody would want to change that, other than for selfish reasons...
...still a business. A host may juggle dozens of clients at a time. Some visit the club just a few times a year, but those who come regularly require a significant amount of off-duty attention. Takuya Sawamura, a gregarious, pink-haired host in Kobe, phones his top clients a few times a week, tags along on shopping trips and acts as their boyfriend at class reunions. He also provides sex. "It's whatever the client wants," he says. He isn't paid cash for these favors, but the women thank him by racking up fat expenses at the club...
...DIED. JULIA PHILLIPS, 57, Oscar-winning producer of The Sting and Taxi Driver and author of the New York Times bestseller You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again; in Los Angeles (see Eulogy). DIED. TAKAHASHI ASAHINA, 93, musical director of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra; in Kobe. Asahina received Japan's prestigious Order of Culture in 1994, becoming only the second classical musician to be given the government award. DIED. GUIDO DI TELLA, 71, former Foreign Minister of Argentina who mended relations with Britain after the 1982 Falkland Islands war; in Buenos Aires. Serving from 1991-99, Di Tella...
...Hence the yuppie Green Acres premise: man (Tom Cavanagh) is cuckolded by wife, loses Manhattan law-firm job, buys bowling alley in Stuckeyville, Ohio, opens a legal practice amid the tenpins and romances his high school love (Julie Bowen). Hence too the oddball characters: the preening slacker selling Kobe beef behind the bowling-shoe counter, the doddering magician suing a rival for revealing his secrets...
...first began to use the tubes in the '80s, in exhibitions. Impressed by the material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes to build a community hall and houses. Working with the U.N., Ban has shipped paper log houses to Turkey and Rwanda. "Refugee shelter has to be beautiful," he says. "Psychologically, refugees are damaged. They have to stay in nice places...