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...stalks through life in Osaka's Korean ghetto with his face locked in a snarl. He puts maggoty meat on his family's dinner table while gambling away his earnings, beats and rapes his estranged wife, and hurls his stepdaughter down a staircase. When a worker at his fish-cake factory begs for back pay, Kim responds by applying a hot coal to the man's cheek. After the business takes off, Kim invests his gains in a loan-sharking operation, opening up vast new reserves of people to exploit and brutalize. To Kim, power is to be abused, affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close to the Bone | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...cook's nightmare: you make a beautiful cake or lasagna and then struggle so hard to wriggle a piece out of the pan, it looks like a collapsed mess by the time it hits the plate. Enter the Lock n' Bake pan--a 2004 winner in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention competition--which solves that problem with sides that fold down after baking and a flat, removable tray for neater serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Cook Smart | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...icing on the cake was a fake field-goal late in the third quarter. Holder Robert Balkema picked up the snap and threw to a slanting Everett, who rumbled in for the score and sealed the win in extending the lead...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Charting the Road to Perfection | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

This is cause for real concern. Although the CIA dropped the ball on the question of Iraqi WMD’s, their poor performance still put the Administration politicos to shame. Remember the embarrassing episode with that non-existent yellow-cake uranium from Niger? Despite CIA analysts’ concerns about the strength of the evidence, Thomas Rider, the former politically-appointed intelligence chief at the Department of Energy, went ahead and used it as the basis for a July 2002 report arguing that Saddam was beginning to reconstitute his nuclear weapons programs (whereupon he received a big pay bonus...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Failures of Intelligence | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

...Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake, flapjacks, ginger biscuits, vanilla fudge, mango chutney, apple sauce, thick-cut marmalade and piccalilli (it's a mustard pickle) worldwide. www.cottagedelight.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Cuisine, Seriously | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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