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...TOMIICHI MURAYAMA June 30, 1994?Jan. 10, 1996 Lowest approval rating: 35% Memorable achievement: Grew out his already protruding eyebrows another 2 cm during very sleepy tenure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: One Prime Minister | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...have a clone. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her name is Diana. She's my body double: blond hair, hazel eyes and fair skin. She's 1 cm taller, but we have the same voices and the same mannerisms. We're both unmarried. We love to read, we relish Mexican food, and we get the same patches of dry skin in winter. We both play tennis and golf. O.K., she's funnier than I am?but just a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Sister, My Clone | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Hwan seizes the wooden handle of the meat cleaver with a beefy right hand, raising the 21-cm blade up and back past his ear. His left pinkie is on the table, pressed against the edge of a wooden board covered in white cloth; the rounded, stubby finger is missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Nostrils flaring, and gold dust sparkling at the dark roots of her trendy bleached hair, she cruised through her routine like an elegant and angry bird. As she moved, the crowd was reminded how big she is for gymnast. At 164 cm., she looks as almost as tall as the beam is long. After the beam, Svetlana deflated and turned back into a too-skinny girl whose leotard was too short in the arms. She sunk into a chair sulking from sidelines until she got word that there had been a problem with the vault. For the first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tatters and Tears | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

...place. But now the girls who had taken the vault on the faulty apparatus were being given a scond chance. Five of them took it (not including Khorkina), though their scores did not change the position of the top three gymnasts. Nearly every one of the gymnasts over 153 cm had fallen or done badly. The Romanian gold medalist Andreea Raducan had sailed through the event, but she is only 148 cm. The impact of the miscalculation could not be overstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tatters and Tears | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

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