Word: roed
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...past 10 years, one contestant on the Japanese TV game show Tokyo Friend Park 2 got a chance to win the grand prize?a Pajero sport utility vehicle made by Mitsubishi Motors?by tossing darts at a spinning wheel while audience members clapped and cheered an encouraging "Pa-je-ro! Pa-je-ro!" But when the taped program aired on June 17, the customary end-of-show ritual had undergone an important change. Instead of the "Pajero!" chant, producers had dubbed in a different cheer: "Ku-ru-ma! Ku-ru-ma!"?meaning simply "Car! Car!" Starting in July, the show...
...Well, I thought the out-of-bounds ball was ours,” Delaney-Smith said. “Bev was open, but Ro saw an opening so, that’s a read. I wasn’t really angry. I’m mad we lost...
...Munich three years ago and has since worked odd jobs and organized right-wing demonstrations with Alexander Metzing, a Munich carpenter. Wiese and Metzing, both of whom are from the former East Germany, are suspected of being leaders of the far-right gang Kameradschaft Süd-Aktionsbüro Süddeutschland (Society of Comrades Action Bureau, Southern Germany). "It's no coincidence that they are east Germans," says Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at Berlin's Free University. "Ten years of experiencing the downside of German unification has created a racist youth subculture...
...before. But the number of right-wing extremist attacks rose nearly 9% last year, to 772. Bernd Wagner, who runs a government-backed program called Exit-Germany that has helped nearly 200 youngsters leave right-wing gangs, warns that the threat posed by Kameradschaft Süd-Aktionsbüro Süddeutschland should not be downplayed. "All the ingredients for right-wing terrorism are there," he says. "Part of the scene is really steaming and looking for a way to take action...
...progress will expand their recently purchased luxurious K Palace hotel into the adjacent buildings on the swank Avenue Kléber. The remodeled K Palace, designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, should put the Costes in the front ranks of the city's hoteliers. "From the Bastille to Trocadéro, from Montparnasse to the Grands Boulevards - that's our fief, our little village," says Jean-Louis, 53, with a proprietary air. "It's a very good village." They've got the Café Marly in the Louvre museum, which overlooks I.M. Pei's glass pyramid, and the restaurant Georges atop...