Word: stroke
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Internet access has opened Korea to a flood of smut from around the world. Homegrown Internet porn is still rare but Korean IJ sites?which initially presented themselves as talk shows?have proliferated in recent months, putting titillating images and dirty talk, in Korean, just a keyboard stroke away from any kid with a computer. That's alarmed this socially conservative country where twentysomething women living at home have curfews and parents still try to arrange marriages for their children. News reports earlier this year of teenagers selling child porn online have heightened concern over what the conservative Chosun Ilbo...
...types, with a weighting toward late cuts and pulls, sometimes off balls that weren't short, just made to seem so by Bradman's movements. "As I ran up to bowl," recalled England's Jim Laker, "Bradman seemed to know where the ball was going to pitch, what stroke he was going to play and how many runs he was going to score." He wasn't a beautiful batsman?he lacked the grace of Victor Trumper, Ted Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged...
...fame so massive it was given its own name: Bradmania. It was the bane of his life and, with the stress it brought, the cause of much of his ill health. For a tired, introspective old man, reclusion was a sanity-saving last resort. It was also his final stroke of genius. There's enough sound and fury in the world, enough fading stars who won't leave us to our memories, so eventually spoiling them. Bradman remained Bradman...
...meet the President as he went by as if they hadn't stood in the very same chamber a month before to yell at former Vice President Al Gore '69 for not inventing rules so they could protest his loss. Robert Byrd looked like he was having a stroke, though, strangely, he didn't seem upset about it. Hillary, who gained more camera time than Laura Bush, couldn't decide what to do with her face and seemed to settle on a combination smile/frown/sneeze...
...central role is being played by the Prime Minister of Japan. For now that's a politician named Yoshiro Mori who fell into the job when the previous Prime Minister, the good-natured Keizo Obuchi, unexpectedly suffered a stroke in April of last year. Five senior politicians of Obuchi's venerable Liberal Democratic Party met behind the ornate screens in Tokyo's Akasaka Prince Hotel to decide which of them would get the top job. The Gang of Five, as they are known, hurriedly picked Mori without consulting the rest of the party, much less the nation...