Word: sumo
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...must be smiling. Japan's national sport, which began as an ancient form of religious worship, is muscling its way around the modern world. Today the grand champion of Japan hails from Mongolia, and as U.S. team coach Yoshisada Yonezuka puts it, "Big guys smash into each other" in sumo rings from Poland to Brazil. Elite-level sumo came to the U.S. for the first time in 20 years with a tournament this month in Las Vegas. Now there's the Sumo Ultimate Masters Organization (S.U.M.O.), a new U.S.-based league with global aspirations and the backing of the International...
...police orders, scrambled over the rocky terrain. Yoshiaki and Kuniko Miyajima reached the remnants of what seemed to be seat 12-K; it had been as signed to their son Takeshi, 9, who had been flying to visit an uncle. The couple prayed over the shattered seat. Several giant sumo wrestlers reached the wreck age, in which the wife and two children of their "stablemaster," or trainer, had died. Doctors who helped retrieve the bodies, many of which were horribly broken, also found some whose injuries might not have been fatal had help come more quickly. Contended one physician...
...DIED. MITSURU HANADA, 55, slight but skillful grappler hailed as the "Prince of Sumo" for his courageous style and good looks; from oral cancer; in Tokyo. A trim 100 kg, Hanada?who fought as Ozeki Takanohana I?followed his grand-champion elder brother Wakanohana I into the dohyo (ring), reaching the sport's ?lite division at age 18 and attracting a spirited fan base over his 16-year career. After retiring in 1981, Hanada became director of the Japan Sumo Association; he is the father of two grand champions of the 1990s, Wakanohana III and Takanohana...
...white collar crime”—varies over holidays (stealing increases dramatically over Christmas and decreases on the 4th of July) and during times of national crisis (the stealing rate dropped after 9/11 and has remained at a constant level since). Even though teachers and Sumo wrestlers cheat sometimes, 89 percent of bagel-eaters left a buck behind...
Levitt himself is a heavyweight—of Sumo-sized proportions—in the world of economics. A one-time resident of Wigglesworth H-entry, he excelled academically as an undergrad here, making Phi Beta Kappa his senior year. In 2003, he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the top American economist under age 40. Past winners include current Harvard faculty members Andrei Shleifer ’82, Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrence H. Summers...