Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...else but Disney would try to convince America that a twoton elephant could be air-dropped from a military cargo plane into a remote Vietnamese mountain village? This latest creation from the Magic Kingdom could be easily passed over by the avid moviegoer--if only it weren't a true story...
...than be "thrown to the wolves" at a "show trial" in Singapore, where he allegedly made hundreds of millions in bad trades that bankrupted Baring Bros. Unfortunately for him, the Serious Fraud Office in London said it had no evidence that would justify Leeson's extradition to the United Kingdom. Leeson's wife read his plea, written in the German jail where he now awaits a decision, at a news conference today. Singapore, which is noted for its harsh legal system and prisons, has charged him with fraud in connection with his activities as manager of the Barings office there...
...years ago, such a statement would have got Martinez committed. In the bad old days, which swept across the past five decades, the Mistake by the Lake was host to geriatric front-office people, eccentric players and the entire entomological kingdom--one pitcher swallowed a moth while delivering the ball to the plate. Indians pitcher Bud Black, who made a brief sojourn in Cleveland in the '80s, says, "At the old ball park, it was always overcast, even on a sunny...
...each other as enemies" [Diplomacy, June 5] is, I fear, a fact. The centuries-old psychology of confronting the West traces its roots to deep within the Chinese culture. With China's economic boom, particularly, the long-suppressed sense of superiority again finds easy justification. The Middle Kingdom expects the rest of the world to admire it, not the other way around. That is why I am so surprised to hear some experts talk of the U.S.'s avoiding Beijing's suspicion while it also thinks it can "improve China's values." On the other hand, China needs to grow...
...paper, a notebook kept by Kiyohide Hayakawa, theAum Shinrikyo cult's No. 2 leader, details plans to destroy Japan's leadershipin a series of simultaneous guerrilla raids starting as early as next November. According to Ikuo Hayashi, another cult leader, the cult hoped to set up an "Aum Kingdom" by killing the country's top officials. The new disclosures add more fuel to speculation thatcult guru Shoko Asahara was planning to cause the apocalypse that he has predicted for 1997.WANT TO BE IN PICTURES? A bizarre twist in the case came with a report from another major Tokyo daily saying...