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...hidden camera caught President Roh Moo Hyun's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung on June 28 at the Kiss Super Night Club south of Seoul, major newspapers and networks reported that the club's owner, under investigation for tax evasion and pimping, asked Yang to block the police probe. The President was furious?at the media. "The unjust oppression by the press must not be tolerated," he told government officials earlier this month. On Aug. 13, Roh sued South Korea's three biggest dailies for reporting an allegation by an opposition lawmaker that Roh bought land under his brother...
...cell-phone text messages--more than 1 billion a month in the U.S.--spammers are targeting your mobile phone. "Not only do you have to wade through all of it, but you have to pay for it when it's on your phone," says David Chamberlain, research director for Probe Research in Cedar Knolls, N.J. Increasingly, cellular-service providers are offering a limited number of free text messages per month, but additional messages can cost from 10¢ to 25¢ each. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include...
...Yemeni parents, al-Aulaqi studied engineering at Colorado State University. Friends describe him as warm and adamantly nonviolent. But while living in San Diego he met with an ally of an Egyptian cleric imprisoned for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. The FBI investigated, closing the probe in March 2000. Two months earlier, two hijackers moved to the area. Al-Aulaqi, according to the joint inquiry, held "closed-door meetings" with them. When he moved to Virginia in early 2001, two hijackers followed. After 9/11, al-Aulaqi told the A.P. he didn't recognize...
...Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies to shed the uniforms they associate with the failure of the bubble years and probe unexplored fashion territory. "We've reached a point in Japanese society where people don't necessarily look up high for their fashion inspiration," says Takizawa. "In fact, even many older people have started to look to the street for inspiration, and that's making the whole culture more casual...
...explosives and a number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation into Berlusconi's business dealings. Castelli had vetoed the probe into Berlusconi's Mediaset company, but reversed the decision, with Berlusconi's agreement, after the coalition partners threatened to walk; Castelli then survived a no-confidence vote 166 to 121. Curbing the Generals TURKEY In an unprecedented move, parliament passed a reform package limiting the role of the country's powerful military...