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Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cup Winner | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Korean politics. When Cho invited Chung to speak at her university last year, she was stunned to see the crowd of cheering, chanting students he attracted: "It was like he was a sports star or an entertainer." Han Sang Jin, a former actor who created the first Chung Mong Joon fan club, says he was impressed when he saw his hero at a football game: "He seems to be one of us, despite all his title and money. People can just walk up to him and start a conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cup Winner | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...girls ("Thinking will give them a headache") and worries that it will give them the notion to vote. One Negro layabout, who has lyingly implicated a fellow black in a murder case so as to ingratiate himself with his white boss, preens in a dialogue intertitle: "Here I is 'mong da whi' fo'ks, while dem other niggahs hide in the woods." He is surrounded by white men and, in a grisly shot, imagines himself lynched. At the climax, a white man attempts to rape a light-skinned black woman, who is revealed to be ... his own daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...policy-makers sought to include more women mong their ranks, Wilson said her name was one eople recognized. She began to be apointed to morre and more commitees...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe's Wilson Discusses Past | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...mong ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Through the Gospel Grapevine | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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