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...Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing on a big stage planted a seed: "I started to dream." The dreams fueled...
...dismissed as punishment for the most innocuous of transgressions. On Feb. 24, in an answer to a reporter's question, the President said he hoped voters would support Uri Party candidates in legislative elections next month. That was a technical violation of South Korea's election code?and pretext enough for his enemies to wage constitutional war. The country's Presidents are supposed to remain impartial, and Roh received a light rebuke from South Korea's election commission for the comment. When Roh refused to apologize, lawmakers moved to impeach him. For good measure, they also cited as grounds...
...Regardless of the election's outcome, Roh's only hope now is that the Constitutional Court will reverse his removal. By Saturday evening, he had made no direct comment on his ousting, although his spokesman urged the nine-judge court to deliver a speedy ruling, expressing confidence that the pretext for the impeachment was too thin to legally stand...
BREMER: It appears that almost all the Zarqawi operations do not involve Iraqis. Al-Zarqawi [has said] that when democracy comes to Iraq, there will be no pretext for continuing the attacks. He also recognizes that there is very little support here for his terrorists. Therefore, his only way forward is to try to provoke a sectarian war between Shias and Sunnis...
Even more shocking are the growing questions surrounding Mather’s pretext for initiating aggression. Where is the evidence that Kirkland has the gong? At the outbreak of war, Mather pointed to circumstantial indicators including a UPS slip signed by a notable Kirkland resident, and let their hysterical rhetoric do the rest. But time has cast harsh doubt on that slip’s authenticity—indeed, some have even suggested that high-ranking officials of Mather’s House Committee altered the slip to implicate Kirkland...