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...yakuza runs these joints, and it lures girls into them with live bait. Handsome young men called "catch" hover in the alleys of Shibuya and Kabuki-cho, swooping down on young targets. They're pretty boys who begin by flattering a girl, acting unthreatening, and then moving swiftly to temptation by dangling the promise of quick money and easy work. It's a lucrative job, says Eiji, a bottle-blond catch with a bronzed face wearing a skinny black suit. Once he reels a girl in to his employer, he collects up to $200. "The younger and cuter," Eiji explains...
...Minors who engage in prostitution can be taken into police custody. (They're difficult to nab, though, with hoods and catch guys constantly looking out on their behalf. "From time to time we try to stamp out the shops, but they're like cockroaches," says Shioya, the undercover cop. "Kill one, there are 50 more.") Instead of being arrested, minors are brought to one of eight police-run youth centers in Tokyo, whose staff evaluate them and decide on a course of action. The center in Shinjuku detained about 500 youths last year for questioning. Among boys, the range...
...celebrities. "She was selected as a tribute to America after the Sept. 11 attacks," said a Pirelli spokeswoman, because she "epitomizes America and all it stands for." Bush, who has modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, shares 2002 with actresses Mena Suvari (November) and Julia Stiles (December), among others. One catch: this year the subjects are scantily clad, not nude, as they used to be. When her grandparents heard that, said Lauren, "they were even more pleased...
DIED. RAY KELLY, 83, chum and mascot to Babe Ruth, whom he called a "second father"; of a heart attack; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. Ruth noticed Kelly one day as the three-year-old was playing catch with his dad in Manhattan's Riverside Park. For the next decade, "Little Ray" was a bench-warming lucky charm for the Yankees...
...bizarre catch set the tone for what would be the only victory over Yale in his career...