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...first, Meteor Rain, was released late last year. It was pop-fluff stuff, a sonic fusion of Japanese groups SMAP and Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...
...flew to California to attend the two days of taping—Jeopardy tapes five episodes a day, and randomly selects contestants for each episode from the pool of contestants who are present...
Passing that agenda will not be easy, in part because Bush, despite his reputation, is not always eager to do what is necessary to win over lawmakers. In December he gave a ride on Air Force One to half the South Carolina congressional delegation as he flew back to Washington from a speech in Charleston. The lawmakers spent the flight in the plane's conference room, waiting for Bush to stop by. Inside his office, aides kept reminding Bush, who was in the middle of giving an interview, that he needed to pay a visit to the Congressmen and Senator...
Williams, the greatest hitter that ever lived, went on to fly combat missions in Korea. Jerry Coleman, a star second baseman for the Yankees, flew 57 missions in World War II and 63 in Korea. They were two of more than 120 ballplayers who served in the Korean...
John Reid, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, flew back from America after the raid to declare a breach of national security. Such a high state of alert is justified, he says, because of the important nature of intelligence work. Reid told Time that in the past year at least three "potentially disastrous terrorist attacks have been thwarted" by Special Branch and other agencies. Critics say there may be other reasons. Intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland have always bent the law, but there are persistent suggestions that they routinely broke it - even to the point of murder...