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That's "room" as in "chatroom." Although some of her fans seem to regard her as a stripper, Ebony (she prefers not to give her real name) is in fact an Internet jockey, or IJ. The show is broadcast on the popular Enterchannel Web TV station: her audience communicates with her through keyboards, she responds via microphone and Webcam. She poses, dances and, yes, sometimes slips off her bra?nothing more. It's pretty tame stuff by the standards of Japanese and U.S adult sites. But it's enough for the guardians of Korean morality to get their knickers...
...work. He doesn't do anything but smoke. (Bing just shrugs when I ask if it's true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains, "everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125, and this weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight...
...Charles aspired to be a jockey, and he would gallop from place to place, slapping the back of his thighs with his hands to make the sound of a horse's hoofs. His father had a plowhorse named Bill, a long-suffering white mare. The three of us boys would climb aboard the broad acreage of Bill's back and ride her down the oystershell road to the blacktop and then on to Chink's roadhouse, where we would go in by the "Colored" entrance and there, in a barroom twilight amid the stale beer and dead cigarette smells, Charles...
...triumphs were legendary. In one day, Oct. 31, 1987, Chris Antley rode nine different horses to first-place finishes, the only jockey in history ever to do so. And in a span of nine years, Antley would win the Kentucky Derby not once but twice, the first time in 1991 aboard Strike the Gold, the second in 1999 aboard Charismatic. Even in defeat, he could be inspiring. Racing the Belmont in 1999, Charismatic came up lame at the end. Television cameras recorded Antley leaping off his mount to brace the ailing leg of the horse, saving the Thoroughbred from...
Police arrested Timothy Tyler, 24, a sometime friend of Antley's, on separate drug charges, none related to the jockey's death. But Tyler was witness to the depths Antley had sunk to. At 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 28, police came to the Pasadena home to find Antley and Tyler--and methamphetamine and marijuana. Antley told the police, "The meth and the marijuana is not mine. The other guy brought it." Antley, however, admitted to using dope a few hours before the cops arrived. (The drug charges against both men were later dropped...