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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...probably a good thing Chung is used to hard knocks. For months, the co-chairman of South Korea's World Cup Organizing Committee has been dropping coy hints about running in the country's presidential election this December?an election that will likely be as rough-and-tumble as an England-Argentina match. Now that South Korea's can-do football team has battled its way to the semifinals, the nation is awash in feel-good vibes and a newfound sense of national unity. All that is rubbing off on Chung. The latest polls give him 15% in a race...
Crime (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), from L&O producer Dick Wolf, borrows not just L&O's cha-chung! sound between scenes but also its pro-prosecution bent. Made in cooperation with San Diego prosecutors, it finds raw drama in cases of murder and child molestation; after one verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods...
...Juliet J. Chung, David H. Gellis and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to the reporting of this article...
...Cabot: Peter J. Chung, Brendan J. Kelly, Richard D. Kim, Brian S. Levine, Shakhi Majumdar, Jillian R. Shulman, William J. Wailand, Ting Wang and Leah J. Whittington...