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...majestic new stadium on the South Korean isle of Cheju basks in the noon sun, just like the crater volcanoes that dot this tropical wonderland and inspired the arena's form. Meanwhile, in Miyagi, Japan, a $585 million marvel of a stadium sits in the rolling countryside like a gleaming samurai helmet, designed to hold nearly 50,000 spectators. "The World Cup gave us the perfect opportunity to develop a real infrastructure," crows Junji Ogura, vice president of the Japan Football Association. There's just one problem: neither the Cheju nor Miyagi stadiums is home to a football team...
Last Wednesday at around noon, Senator Joe Lieberman was pulled out of a meeting with majority leader Tom Daschle; Homeland Security adviser Tom Ridge needed Lieberman on the phone. For months the Bush Administration had been quashing the Connecticut Senator's proposal for a Cabinet agency to deal with homeland security--just as it had when the idea was proposed before Sept. 11 by a commission led by former Senators Warren Rudman and Gary Hart. Ridge had refused to testify before Lieberman's Governmental Affairs Committee, and the White House had pressed Republicans to fight the plan when it emerged...
...both 15, were neighbors in tony Greenwich, Conn. He had a crush on her; she flirted with his older brother Tommy, 17. That September diary entry included the words "I really have to stop going over there"--meaning the Skakels' house. Her torn and bludgeoned body was found at noon on Halloween, face down under a pine tree, with her pants and underwear around her ankles...
...full dinner complete with bottle of vodka runs to about $15 a person. The restaurant is open daily from noon to 10 p.m. Reservations are essential, but as phoning from abroad is difficult, book through your hotel instead...
Since no Faculty member asked for a motion overturning the decision to be considered at next week’s meeting prior to noon on Monday, a four-fifths would be required to reverse the prior vote...