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...wasn't considered talented. To make ends meet, she began drawing for pornographic magazines. Publishers noticed the humorous comments she added to compensate for her lack of drawing skills; by junior year in college she had debuted as a cartoonist. After her series about losing $500,000 in illegal mah-jongg became a hit, she went on to cultivate her personal style of manga (the Japanese term for comics), which now has many imitators. Says Saibara: "People who can draw well are too proud to do anything, and many of them are still starving artists." --By Toko Sekiguchi...
...final pieces were assembled on July 31, the eve of the trading deadline, as the Sox shipped out shortstop Nomar Garciaparra. No-mah, as Boston fans know him, went to the Chicago Cubs in a complicated trade that brought the relatively unknown Orlando Cabrera from Montreal. Trading Garciaparra was risky. He was a baseball Brahmin, descended from the line of Boston icons that included Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. But Garciaparra had been unsettled since the Sox tried to land Rodriguez. It was a gutsy, initially unpopular trade, but it worked out. Says Epstein: "One thing about our ownership--they...
Tomato, to-mah-to. On Skin, politics, anxiety and money are the very definition of 21st century American sex, in which desire and guilt dance their eternal lambada to the frantic beat of the electro-media. In Skin's world, come-ons for sex chat compete for TV time with pictures of abducted girls on Amber Alerts. In Skin's world, D.A. Thomas Roam (Kevin Anderson) runs his re-election campaign on an antismut crusade, while his target, Larry Goldman (Ron Silver), quips, "If the voters are so much against porn, why do I live...
...being Beijing (i.e. opaque), and the only thing that's changed is the large number of Hong Kongers periodically flooding the streets on their own time. The vigil last week drew far more people than expected: some 30,000-50,000 souls willing to sacrifice their dinners or mah-jongg dates. "Beijing scares me," admitted Lance Tai, 26, who works in a financial firm, "but we have to demonstrate our determination and let them know that 'one country, two systems' is not working. And neither is Tung Chee-hwa." In other words, Hong Kong has a standoff. Something...
...mah-jongg, Ann Kong believes, that finally put her over the edge. Living just a few blocks from Amoy Gardens, she was already nervous about SARS. But the reality didn't hit her until she arrived at her brother's home for the family's weekly mah-jongg game. Everyone had to wear slippers, and there was a designated "shoe area" to prevent footwear from contaminating the flat. The usually raucous pregame lunch was silent?the 10-person group had agreed not to talk to avoid spitting on one another and the food. Kong's brother wiped the mah-jongg...