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...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 »

...Koizumi stirred Korean anger over his country's wartime past by visiting Yasukuni Shrine?a notorious symbol of Japanese militarism?13 of Cho's men sent a message to Tokyo. Draped in Korean flags, they knelt on the ground in Independence Park in Seoul and each laid a pinkie finger on a flat, wooden scything board. As television cameras rolled, they lopped off the last joint, wrapped the bloody stubs in a Korean flag and headed off to present them to the Japanese embassy. Police stopped them and confiscated the severed digits...

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

...between gangsters and politicians. One of the biggest shockers came in October when the eldest son of President Kim Dae Jung was forced to admit he had met at least twice with the powerful mobster-cum-political-fixer at the center of the scandal. Koreans nervously laughed off the finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials and politicians close to the President. Yeo Un Hwan, the mobster who met the President's son, is now under arrest. Yeo allegedly tried to bribe politicians and prosecutors...

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

Hopkins smiled menacingly and shook his finger at Forkner before he finally spoke...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hopkins Honored as Man of the Year | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

Chikoka knows his predilection for commercial sex spreads AIDS; he knows his promiscuity could carry the disease home to his wife; he knows people die if they get it. "Yes, HIV is terrible, madam," he says as he crooks a finger toward the businesswoman whose favors he will enjoy that night. "But, madam, sex is natural. Sex is not like beer or smoking. You can stop them. But unless you castrate the men, you can't stop sex--and then we all die anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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