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Korea's short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...
...leads a very simple life. He's not Saddam Hussein, living in gold palaces while his people can't find milk. Ghaddafi lives very simply, and he still proclaims some kind of socialism. So everyone here is always telling you that nobody is very rich or very poor. Despite the country's oil wealth, you don't see the same signs of wealth as you do in some of the Gulf states - you don't have the same glittering, sophisticated buildings and cars. It's a very simple place. There are nice wide roads and a lot of Japanese cars...
...lovely independent drama that's way too unassuming to warrant a backlash - though it is a major breakthrough for Linney, 36, whose Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle and Golden Globe nomination have propelled her into this year's Oscar race. Is Linney seeing gold? She stammers, "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't aware of it. People are excited for me and the prospect that I might be ... oh, it's so awkward I can't spit...
...Hotel. On the second night of that comic, two-day revolt, I held a cocktail party for visiting family members. Afterward, we climbed into the car and toured the revolution. My family enjoyed roaming the fortified hotel with machine-gun toting soldiers and opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly toppled the government of Corazon Aquino. This has been one of the unintended and unfortunate legacies of People Power: that a coup, popular or otherwise, is considered a legitimate - glorious even - way to transfer power...
...certain to knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached to inner-city youngsters about the threats posed by aids, drugs and unwed pregnancy. It's time to give him another gold Rolex, thank him for his service and send him out to pasture...