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...embraced me. Literally. I never met a single Korean, even among my closest friends, who would touch me or hug me. But he would grab me by the shoulders when he saw me and say, “Hello, my friend! You are still here...
...being a fan is that it's something personal that you can share," says Hirt, the Indiana professor. "There are other fans to commiserate with, to talk to about how much this stinks. 'We're loyal, and we have each other.' That's a very positive thing.'" Group hug, everyone. Right about now, we could sure...
...year after Nelson Mandela's election as President inaugurated democratic majority rule, South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup - and won. As tens of thousands of fans - almost all of them white - erupted in the stands, Mandela donned a Springbok jersey and went onto the field to hug the team's captain. For many, this historic embrace symbolized white acceptance of the new order. Apartheid, it seemed, was finally dead...
...thanked them for giving me a lifetime's worth of material. I was talking to Bono in Australia last year, and we mentioned something about family histories, and he was like, Wow, they really gave you some good stuff to write about. It was like he wanted to hug them and thank them...
...Captain Mike, which played to two packed houses of Toronto Mooreomaniacs, mixes the forms of a rock-concert movie (with reaction shots of adoring fans, including one woman holding a "Hug me, Michael" sign) and Triumph of the Will (the star lands in a city, meets the locals, attends a rally with guest speakers, then wows the crowd himself). Among the guests are Celeste Zappala, the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and a cadre of antiwar diplomats. At some venues, famous musicians are on hand: Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, Steve Earle and Tom Morello, ex of Rage...