Word: sumo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quad looked emptier than it usually does because of the conspicuous absence of an inflatable moonwalk and a sumo wrestling ring...
...weather stunk for most of last week, but yesterday afternoon the sunlight broke through, just in time for the annual spring celebration on the MAC Quad. Although "Springfest 2000" was not nearly as bombastic as those of years past--sumo wrestling and gladiatorial combat among the most conspicuous absences--it was a genuinely festive event that did much to dispel the dreariness that accompanies April snowfalls...
...wonder Japan was filled with rumors last week that after going public with his allegations, Itai was in hiding, fearing that gangsters with sumo ties had put out a contract on his life. "I'm not afraid! I'm not hiding!" Itai protested. The Japan Sumo Association, Vatican-like in its secrecy, and with a hammerlock hold on the sport, has always denied charges of match fixing. (It refused interview requests from TIME last week.) But Itai isn't going down lightly. He has produced tapes he surreptitiously made during sumo meetings in 1989 and 1991. They suggest that, contrary...
...tapes, given to TIME, a voice identified as that of one of Japan's highest-ranking sumo officials says, "Match rigging is a rationale to skip training and daily practice and sacrifices the fundamental nature of sumo. And when this is out in the public, it will threaten the existence of the Japan Sumo Association." Later the official directly addresses the wrestlers: "You wrestlers have a look on your face that says, 'What's the problem? This has been around for a long time.' But at some point, we need to put an end to this." Itai's allegations...
...computer itself. It finally allows me to stow that plastic stylus and type like a man. In fact, I pecked out most of this column on the 6:24 Long Island Rail Road train home, easily balancing Palm and keyboard in my lap. And I only occasionally elbowed the sumo wrestler squished in next...