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...purification rituals. In Inazawa, where this year's event will be held on March 2, one self-confident fellow is chosen to be the official streaker. He's shaved and then marched through the Kounomiya Shrine, where a throng of around 9,000 men wearing only loincloths attempt to lay their hands on him as thousands of spectators watch. The naked man is supposed to collect the bad luck and impurities of all who touch him. The crowd can get overly enthusiastic (sake is involved), so the man is protected by guards-but he still ends up pummeled and bruised...
Last year MLG focused on four-vs.-four team matches for the game Halo 2. Rob Dustin, an executive producer at MLG, says the main challenge was whittling down the onslaught of information for the lay viewer. Next season Dustin hopes to find a Cinderella team and build its programming around it. He needs more stars. "The uniqueness of the MLG is that you can start as just four guys from Poughkeepsie and end as a top-five team," says Dustin. "You can't do that in other sports...
...health care is delivered now. They know a lot more about what they pay." But don't expect her to be pushing that or any other specific universal health-care alternative as part of her presidential campaign. "I want to set the goals," she says. Then she will lay out some options, she promises, and listen to what voters have...
...wish to lay to bear a crime most treasonous and vile, a crime committed without a thought by so many of the more brazen undergraduates at Harvard College. The rude tendrils of these boors have, like kudzu, ensnared our mighty towers with treacherous speed, and the former glory of our quadrangles is all but eclipsed by their perfidy. We must thrust off this shadow...
...threw him a graduation party at Shelbyville Community Church, where he landed not only about $350 in gifts, but also a promise from his dad to pick up half the car payments on Shawn's '99 Grand Prix GT. Even better was the fact that Shawn got hired to lay cable with his father and older brother, at a pay rate - $15 an hour - that was much higher than what his brother, who had dropped out of high school, had started at. With his diploma, he's also eligible for further technical training that can eventually place...