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...Kosuke Asano, 63, president of Nippon Light Metal, felt fit enough to walk 20 minutes to his office each morning from a train station. But after returning home from work one day in March, he died of a stroke. His company, Japan's largest aluminum producer, had been battered by cheap imports and was desperately trying to diversify into consumer products like ice cream-making machines...
...Shinzaburo Kato, 59, managing director of Kawasaki Steel, was a top executive in an industry that lost $2 billion last year. A frequent overseas traveler, he died of a stroke in June while on a business trip...
...case rests principally on an irresistible plot. Rusty Sabich, 39, is the chief deputy prosecutor of Kindle County, somewhere in the Middle West. Raymond Horgan, his boss and mentor for the past twelve years, faces a re- election battle undermined by a stroke of bad news. A little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach...
...years of often fractious political life since South Korea became a republic, there had never been a policy reversal so sweeping and so totally unexpected. Roh announced he had decided to support the direct election of South Korea's next President, thereby acceding in a single stroke to the principal demand of thousands of protesters who had turned cities throughout the country into scenes of nightly combat during the three previous weeks. What is more, said Roh, he would recommend that President Chun Doo Hwan agree to a list of other democratic reforms, including freedom of the press, the release...
...most of those who rowed last Saturday in the varsity boat, however, this year was their last. Varsity stroke George Hunnewell, seven man Rich Kennelly, five man Claude Sirlin, JV seven man Andy Hawley, six man Alex Litvak, three man Gordon Gwynne-Timothy have rowed their last Harvard-Yale race. Rowed it and won it by 10 boat lengths, the 10th largest margin since World War I. Some, like roomates Hunnewell and Kennelly, have never lost...