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...plenty of time to ponder that question last week, on the long subway ride home to my love motel in Seoul, exhausted from my first World Cup as a journalist (although it was my eighth as a fan). And after years of wrestling with the baffling question of why some nations are football winners and others simply are not, I have reduced it to a question of psychology, or sociology, or social psychology, or some sort of combination of guts and brain, attitude, style and substance. And luck and, oh yes, some football skills. For some inexplicable reason, the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup: Why Some Teams Just Can't Win | 6/28/2002 | See Source »

...sunny March morning in 1995, followers of the doomsday cult, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract police investigating their secretive chemical-manufacturing operation, quietly used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with liquid sarin, which they left behind on five Tokyo subway trains. A poisonous cloud spread through the trains and stations. Thousands of commuters were sickened, and 12 people died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Shoko Asahara shuffles, handcuffed, into a Tokyo courtroom. His hair, once wild and frizzy, is now cut short. Accused of masterminding the poisoning of Tokyo's subway system with the deadly nerve gas sarin seven years ago, Asahara, 47, has spent the past seven years stewing in a jail cell. In court, he bobs his head up and down, looking tired and confused. He scrunches up his face and occasionally emits a grunt. Every move he makes is closely watched by his disciples, wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom because it's the only chance they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Still, it has followers like Ai Ozaki, 25. A shy, thoughtful woman from outside Tokyo, Ozaki (that's her cult name; she asked that her real name be kept confidential) joined Aum after the sarin attack. Though she knew of the group's connection to the subway terrorism, she was drawn to its promise of life after death in a reincarnated form. "I was afraid of dying," she says. "So I liked their creed." She left the group when Japan's new surveillance law required members to fill out forms that would be shared with the government. She couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...James A. Rector said that in addition to the exam at the Kennedy School, the NYPD tabled in Boston area subway and bus stops, malls and other schools, including the University of Massachusetts Boston campus over the course of the past week...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NYPD Recruits Harvard’s Finest | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

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