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Megumi Yokota was last seen pausing at a traffic light by her home in Niigata, a badminton racquet stuffed in a white bag and a black schoolbag clutched in her hand. Then she vanished without a trace. That was 25 years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector...
Sturm and her brother, who had attended the University of Massachusetts, discussed the lack of cable in Harvard dorm rooms as they trudged upstairs juggling a tennis racquet, a gold lamp, posters and a multi-colored bed spread...
...there's probably times every day where I feel like I lose control." Judging by his new memoir, Serious (Little, Brown; 352 pages) - the title alludes to his catchphrase, "You cannot be serious" - the subject of his wrath nowadays isn't an umpire or an obnoxious fan but his racquet-smashing, tantrum-throwing self. McEnroe the player was obviously torn by inner conflict. During points, he was so in control - solid on the baseline, silky smooth at the net, masterful with both his movement and the ball's. But in between points, he seemed a different man, unable (or unwilling...
...Lewis, the Englishman/Canadian who has been renting a mansion in East Memphis and working out every day at the high-society Racquet Club, seems to have recovered from that bite in the leg. But this week, he held his tongue when reporters asked whether he nursed any anxieties about Tyson clamping down on him again. He knew better than to answer. After all, it was Tyson's errant teeth and bite in the thigh that brought the boxers and the world of boxing to Memphis. That bite led Las Vegas to forbid Cannibal Mike from fighting at the key venues...
...spending more time with his wife Peggy, a former accountant, and their three young daughters. They live in a $753,000 ranch-style home in a shady Houston enclave quite unlike the middle-class neighborhood where Duncan grew up in Beaumont, Texas. Duncan belongs to the pricey Houston Racquet Club and is an avid golfer and tennis player. These days, though, he's often found working out in the club gym--a solitary figure trying to get through what friends say is the worst period of his life...