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...disappeared during Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945. That morning, with dawn breaking and the skies clearing, workers reverentially pried open the first box. Before cranes pulled out the initial statue, curator Brian Jang and the museum's director spread out a straw mat and bowed low to the ground twice. Jang was choked with emotion. "It was like welcoming back ancestors who had been taken away to Japan by force," says Jang. "We had finally brought them back...
...said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but as Bill Clinton discovered, that's not the case when you're the occupant of the Oval Office. The same goes for a pretzel. Washington's official line is that wartime Prez George W. Bush was taken to the mat by a lowly pretzel while watching American football. But world reaction has been fairly skeptical. Surely President Bush, a potato chip and pork rinds sort of guy, is familiar with proper snack consumption. (Open mouth. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.) Was this a rogue pretzel acting on its own deranged whims...
While the opening means more competition for neighboring pubs, most local bars have laid out the welcome mat for the former owners of Grafton Street...
...Crimson opened its long Saturday with a match against an Oklahoma team with nationally-ranked wrestlers in every weight class but two. The Sooners represented their high ranking on the mat by defeating Harvard...
...bomb on wheels capable of killing tens of thousands. The men turned out not to be terrorist linked. But with Osama bin Laden vowing to use weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. and claiming he has sleeper cells in place, it's hard to argue that the Haz-Mat 22 weren't worth some intense scrutiny...