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...Obara's decline - his firm collapsed, his banks called in their loans - is also a parable for Japan's economic journey. And like most of his countrymen, the downturn didn't affect his lifestyle. His lavish habits continued; he kept his Ferrari, vintage red Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, his condominiums by the sea in Miura. Driving his Ferrari around Roppongi, he was a curious figure with his droopy mustache and surgically altered, Westernized eyes. At 1.7 m tall, he wore shoe lifts and took regular doses of human growth hormone under the mistaken belief it would make him taller...
Though the committee was concerned their affection for Tilghman might cloud their judgment, they took many precautions to avoid such bias, and according to Wright, “they actually held her to a higher standard...
...Itogi - which the American magazine had helped publish since 1996 - and asked the reconstituted periodical to stop using the Newsweek logo. Western governments scrambled to find creative ways of gently expressing their unqualified outrage. The European Union's envoy to Moscow murmured that the issue of press freedom might cloud next month's E.U.-Russia summit...
...Vice President Dick Cheney: Well obviously that's not the case. During the course of the campaign we did mention that we thought it was a problem that there was no national energy policy for several years, that if you look down the road [at] the storm cloud on the horizon out there that could potentially adversely affect our long term economic outlook, it was potential problems in the energy area. And now here we are in April of 2001 and we're talking about rolling blackouts in California and power shortages all up and down the West Coast...
...DIED. WILLIE ("POPS") STARGELL, 61, baseball Hall of Famer and seven-time All-Star; in Wilmington, North Carolina. Stargell spent 21 seasons hitting cloud-scraping home runs and winning two World Series championships for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Former manager Chuck Tanner reflected, "When you had Willie Stargell on your team, it was like having a diamond ring on your finger...