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...Harvard heavyweight boat also won first place, garnering the George M. Angle Cup for the fourth time. The Crimson also won the championship...
...fact, Koizumi knew early defeat. He lost his first election in 1969, an embarrassing failure to fill his father's seat. The future Prime Minister was sent off to work for an L.D.P. heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. Koizumi answered the phone, ran errands and dusted Fukuda's shoes. He finally took his father's place in 1972, but the years with Fukuda were well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely...
...After that electoral defeat, Koizumi signed up as an assistant to an LDP heavyweight, Takeo Fukuda. The job involved answering the phone, greeting guests, running errands and even dusting Fukuda's shoes. It was Koizumi's political boot camp. His antiestablishment streak developed under Fukuda, himself a bright, squeaky-clean policy wonk who frequently took on the LDP's most powerful clique, headed by Kakuei Tanaka and filled with politicians with cozy ties to special interest groups like construction bosses, farmers and war veterans. This is the faction most dependent on pork-barrel politics, campaign war chests and the obtaining...
...BARNEY THE LOBSTER One-meter-long crustacean is saved from the pot by a merciful chef in London. When it comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble. The troubled exchange may have to tap a heavyweight like Pee Wee Herman JACQUES CHIRAC French President photographed in the buff by paparazzi while on holiday. Editors recoil, but you might get the pix for a euro or two on e-Bay RODNEY KING Brutality victim is arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of PCP. First suspect...
Beyond blood, the appeal of the Grand Prix lies in its king-of-the-hill simplicity. Sixteen fighters square off in a bracket-style tournament. There's only one division--heavyweight--and the champion must survive several brutal bouts in a single day. Whatever patina of class and skill the martial arts lend to the festivities is offset by flashing lights, blaring jock rock and Cheech levels of smoke. Ubiquitous ring announcer Michael Buffer has already collected a K-1 appearance...