Word: ek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the corporate sponsorship and commercialization are positive things? EK: I think it's a great thing. A great thing. Because that enables the international crews. This year you're going to have the top six men's scullers and the top women's single scullers from the world competing. That's awesome! You're going to have the Germans here, you have the German Youth National Team coming here rowing out of Harvard. It's going to be remarkable, so in that regard, sure, bring it on. And if it gets people's names in the press and people...
...Rowing in general is a low-visibility sport, it's not a spectator sport. EK: Well, this is the one regatta where it is a spectator sport. I mean the Olympics are a spectator sport, but this is truly a spectator sport in that there's always some crew going by and in that way, it's a gas. So I think corporate sponsorship is fine. But I don't think people are getting paid to row, which is a not a bad thing. Plus, you get to see all the latest technology in boats...
...urchins in wheelchairs swivel around in front of cybercafes crying, "No have mother!" On the map given to visitors who go to the local tourist center, the text boasts of Cambodia's "wonderful history" and its status as a "land of tolerance and of plenty." Visit the "Choeung Ek Genocidal Center," it urges brightly of the rural equivalent to Tuol Sleng, where executioners once beat babies' heads against trees, adding that Cambodia will be "an inexhaustible source of memories to each one of you." The main sight at the center is a 10-story-high shrine made up of skulls...