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...Sandwiched between economic giant Japan and rising superpower China, Korea has always shouldered an inferiority complex. When the country won the right to co-host the World Cup, it saw a chance to showcase itself?particularly to Japan, its neighbor, and the U.S., its oft-contentious ally. Officials plugged Korea as Asia's most wired nation, and touted the country's capital as being as hip and caffeinated as any modern metropolis. Said bleached-haired midfielder Kim Nam Il on the eve of Korea's 2002 debut: "We want to show we are a team?and a nation?that...
When the brackets were drawn for this year's World Cup soccer tournament, England's games were assigned to Japan and not to the other co-host, South Korea. But to the Japanese, England plus soccer equals one thing: trouble. So the country is on full-scale alert for a hooligan invasion, especially when rivals Argentina and England face off in Sapporo on June 7. Hotels have established Brit-free zones to keep troublemakers away from everybody else. Merchants with shops near stadiums are boarding up their windows. Organizers will try to keep fans from different countries away from...
...council’s second meeting of the semester featured Summers as its special guest, and the president’s offer to co-host Springfest led to several meetings between the staff of his office and council members...
...COKIE ROBERTS She'll step down this fall as co-host of ABC's This Week. The 58-year-old broadcast veteran's kids are grown, but "I want a life," she said. Rumors that ABC execs were seeking new talent to lure a younger audience may have rankled as well...
...friend Audrey Hepburn, who had been UNICEF's goodwill ambassador, asked me to be co-host of the Danny Kaye International Children's Awards in Amsterdam and to take part in a UNICEF press conference. I told Audrey I didn't know much about UNICEF. She replied that all the reporters wanted to talk about was movies. She was right; they did want to talk about movies. But Audrey wouldn't let them. She was passionate and eloquent about the needs of children, and she wanted me to get involved as well. That was my moment of epiphany: I wanted...