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...largest legions of fans. King Richard's subjects loved his laconic aw-shucks manner and the way it contrasted with his ferocity behind the wheel. Ironhead's followers reveled in their hero's orneriness. Jeff Lancaster, owner of Lancaster's BBQ, a restaurant and car-racing shrine in Mooresville, N.C., explained it last week, the walls around him covered with souvenirs of racing giants: "He was the John Wayne of NASCAR. He was a kick-ass, take-names kinda guy. A guy's guy. Somebody that made things happen...
These days Takeshita's old office? complete with its watercolor of Izumo shrine?is occupied by Mikio Aoki, an LDP heavyweight who hails from the same prefecture as Takeshita. But, having little clout and less charisma, Aoki is no Takeshita. He's competing for influence with Hiromu Nonaka?another Gang of Five member and Prime Minister-wannabe, who belongs to the largest party faction (led by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto...
...speaking fees and board appointments pay enough to finance homes in any vacation spot one might fancy. Everything one says is wise, and everything one writes goes straight to the best-seller list. Ex-Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former President transubstantiates from pol to statesman is seeing the traits that annoyed and enraged people while he was in office--Harry Truman's commonness, George Bush's blandness, Jimmy Carter's righteousness--come to be regarded as virtues...
...godfather of Chungchong pro-vince, south of Seoul, certainly loves his cutlery. Last Aug. 13, the day Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stirred Korean anger over his country's wartime past by visiting Yasukuni Shrine?a notorious symbol of Japanese militarism?13 of Cho's men sent a message to Tokyo. Draped in Korean flags, they knelt on the ground in Independence Park in Seoul and each laid a pinkie finger on a flat, wooden scything board. As television cameras rolled, they lopped off the last joint, wrapped the bloody stubs in a Korean flag and headed off to present...
...Gundan, a group of some 100 apprentice comics, young men who adore Beat and emulate him, sprang up in 1983. They gathered at a yakiniku restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku district?a popular Takeshi haunt?waiting for a glimpse of their master. The restaurant became known as the holy shrine to Beat; his followers began to call him tono, or "lord." "We waited outside for four hours, just to see him," recalls Hakase Suidobashi, 38, who grew up in Okayama but enrolled in a Tokyo university to be nearer to his idol. Beat even recruited writers and comics...