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...love Sumo," says Levan Gorgadze, 18, a former judo champion from Tbilisi, Georgia. And he's good at it too. Gorgadze hit the amateur European sumo tour two years ago, and in this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen...
...CHARGED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, ethnic Armenian who confessed to throwing a live grenade at George W. Bush during the U.S. President's May speech in Georgia; with terrorism; in Tbilisi. Arutyunian's grenade failed to explode after landing about 30 meters from the podium where Bush and Georgian Prime Minister Mikhail Saakashvili stood behind a bulletproof barrier. Arutyunian, who is being held in custody awaiting trial, says Bush was "interfering in Georgia's foreign affairs" and maintains that his attempt on the President's life is not a punishable offense...
...race that defined his career, the world champion, who announced his planned retirement in April, said, "Vive le Tour, forever!" Charged. Vladimir Arutyunian, 27, ethnic Armenian who confessed to throwing a live grenade at George W. Bush during the U.S. President's May speech in Georgia; with terrorism; in Tbilisi. The grenade he threw failed to explode. Arutyunian, who awaits trial, says Bush was "interfering in Georgia's foreign affairs" and maintains that the attempt on his life is not a punishable offense. Convicted. 62 residents of the French city of Angers; for taking part in a child prostitution ring...
...Angeles Times last week introduced a fiendishly addictive puzzle that in recent months has been stumping players from Taiwan to Tbilisi. Sudoku, which loosely translates to "single number" in Japanese, is a deceptively simple game of logic that consists of a nine-by-nine-square grid, broken into three-by-three-square cells. The object: fill each square with a number from 1 to 9 so that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle...
...will be much like the one he set up for the 1984 Olympics--was already in Moscow. "I wanted to be the first in the door," he says. Fitzpatrick, whose taste runs to artistic frontiers, immediately placed a bid for the innovative Rustaveli Theater from the Georgian city of Tbilisi. "It's been a generation or two since we've seen any Soviet theater in this country," he says...