Word: kariya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postponed and postponed again, as snow gave way to sleet gave way to rain. Delay after delay left the athletes fractious, and fans who had traveled from distant islands to watch the Games found themselves standing in strong winter monsoons. The Olympic Village waited and waited to see Paul Kariya, the Canadian hockey star of Japanese descent, arrive, and finally he had to cancel too, because of a concussion...
...after fleeing to the Team Canada bus, said, "I've been in a lot of places, but I've never seen anything like this." It wasn't supposed to go this way for the Great One. The plan was to divert the hockey-deprived country with Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya, who, at least in Japan, is the most famous hockey player ever...
...Paul Kariya, 22. He carries a much better story line than any of the Mighty Duck movies, which is ironic because he plays for the Disney-owned Anaheim Mighty Ducks. The Vancouver native is part Japanese--father Tetsuhiko was born in a World War II internment camp--and nearly all Gretzky. Like the Great One, who was his idol, Kariya makes up for his lack of size with superb skating skills and stick handling. "He has great wheels and good hands, but those aren't his best assets," says Ducks general manager Jack Ferreira. "He has that sixth sense...
...case was never solved, but it cast a shadow over the organization. Last February 68-year-old Kiyoshi Kariya tried to prevent his cult-member sister, a wealthy widow, from giving Aum the building in which his office was located. The sister disappeared, and shortly afterward an Aum member questioned Kariya on her whereabouts. On Feb. 28, four young men jumped out of a Mitsubishi van and grabbed him. He has not been seen since. When police found a similar van with traces of Kariya's blood in it and the fingerprints of sect members, they issued a warrant...
...guru himself laid low. He released a videotape answering questions posed by the nhk television network in which he echoed his lawyers' earlier line, denying involvement in Kiyoshi Kariya's kidnapping and providing innocent household explanations for the seized chemicals. "I don't understand," he concluded, "why it's said that these can be used to make sarin." A second video was recorded for cult followers and played at 36 local chapters. In it Asahara claimed that Aum members, including himself, had been the object of a poison-gas attack. The origin was "unmistakably...