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...those who practice sadomasochism--including those halting dabblers who tee-hee their way through spankings, hoping to paddle excitement into their marriage--know it's still taboo. (After all, if it weren't, it would lose its power to excite.) To reconcile the icons with the actual practice, I spent several weeks recently talking to SM practitioners around the U.S.--in New York City and San Francisco, yes, but also in North Carolina and New Mexico. Whether they were nervous novices or experienced dungeon masters leading some of the nation's 250 SM organizations, virtually all of them asked...
...incommunicado.) At least 11 other aides, friends and associates of Roh are under scrutiny. Among them are Lee Kwang Jae, a former Blue House secretary for information and policy planning, who resigned on Oct. 18 after being accused by opposition party members of accepting bribes, and Ahn Hee Jung, a presidential aide who is currently on trial for allegedly funneling $166,000 from a faltering commercial bank into a private political research institute set up by Roh. Meanwhile, investigators from the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office recently raided offices at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, part of the Samsung Group, the country...
...enforcement officials. At a town-hall-style meeting in March, Roh told a gathering of prosecutors that "there will be no phone calls" from the Blue House squashing investigations. And the public is squarely behind a cleanup drive. The lead prosecutor for the campaign-financing investigation, Ahn Dae Hee?known to be fearless in pursuing politically sensitive cases?even has an Internet fan club. Under the circumstances, the Blue House "can't make the phone call even if they want to," says Kim Young Ho, an expert on Korean politics at Inha University in Inchon...
...ordering GNP lawmakers to boycott the National Assembly. The GNP wants to prove that after the elections, Roh's aides accepted illegal donations with the President's knowledge. "If we find that Roh's involved, we'll impeach him," says GNP lawmaker Hong Joon Pyo. Another GNP legislator, Won Hee Ryong, remarks, "To put it in football terms, this is about who can stay on offense until the April [legislative] elections...
...term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny." Lee Chung Hee, a political scientist at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, says, "If the President has problems, he should solve them through consultation instead of storming off like a man possessed...