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...were all cheering behind the net,” Vukonich adds. “And Teddy didn’t even want to hug any of us. He’s just standing there with his arms in the air, screaming...
...Asia last week, she garnered big headlines and huge photos by saying and doing perfectly ordinary things. She schmoozed election workers in Kabul, did the normal round of interviews on local TV and flung herself into a bear hug with Hawaiian-born sumo superstar Konishiki in Tokyo. Reporters from Washington to New Delhi pressed her on whether she would run for President in 2008. Her reply: a not-quite-Shermanesque no. "She brings the spotlight with her wherever she goes," an aide says...
...crowd of dressed-up scenesters queues. Lame kids, admittedly. A skinny-tied Scandinavian joins the end of the 100-person line. He has a black eye and is shouting into his mobile phone in broken English. Some kid had hit him in the street and run off. I hug the cracked plaster frame to the entrance and tell Jack to hurry up and sell his extra...
Inside, we listen with the drunk and stoned Swedes. But now, we roll deep. We’re a family of strangely dressed, drunken, threatened kids. People hug each other. The band seems boring in comparison...
...Tokyo's joint communiqu? with Washington, however, puts Japan and Taiwan in a unique, post-colonial bear hug. Japan wrested the island from the Qing dynasty in 1895 and colonized it for 50 years before surrendering it to Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1945. Now the former colonial master is effectively promising to watch-guard its former subjects and their tense relationship with mainland China. If Taiwanese were skeptical or ambivalent, they didn't express it. "The joint declaration is a check on China," says Lai Hsin-yuan, a former adviser to Taiwan's National Security Council. Says...