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...Black, 59, may not be quite so nimble as he thought. As he set out on a book tour of Toronto and New York City last week to tout his new biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Black found himself at the center of a typhoon over alleged improprieties in his business affairs. On Wednesday, Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, his Chicago-based public company, after shareholders revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned...
SOUTH KOREA The Wrath of Rusa Amighty typhoon swept across South Korea killing at least 184 people and leaving a trail of devastation. Typhoon Rusa was the worst to hit the Korean peninsula in 40 years: winds reached 204 km/h and 89 cm of rain fell. Thousands of people were made homeless. At least 26,000 homes were flooded in Kangwon province. The total damage caused by Rusa is estimated at $3.5 billion, four times that of 1999's Olga. A government official said the cleanup would need twice as much money as is left for disaster relief in state...
...Hong Kong, there are hashes for men, women, mixed groups and serious runners. There is even a hash for adrenaline junkies: the T8 hash boasts that "we run for fun when everyone else runs for cover"?it ventures out when the strength of a typhoon slamming into Hong Kong is graded eight, just one level below the full intensity of a direct hit. Regardless of each group's idiosyncrasies, one characteristic that never changes is that every hash is open to newcomers. "A hash, no matter where, is always welcoming," says Justin ("Secret Passage") Searle...
...staying in a motel across from the gas station, caught the beating on video. In a separate incident, two white officers in Oklahoma were videotaped beating Donald Pete, a black man, across his back and legs as he lay on the ground. EAST ASIA The Wrath of Typhoon Chata'an A tropical storm lashed northern Japan, killing five people and leaving three missing. The deadly weather system had already claimed dozens of lives in the Philippines and Micronesia. Japanese authorities ordered more than 75,000 people to leave their homes north of Tokyo because of high winds, heavy rain, flooding...
...year. That would be catastrophic for countries like Singapore, which has been in a full-blown recession since July, and Taiwan, where economic misery has already reached levels unseen since the early 1970s. A global economic downturn isn't Taiwan's only problem: earlier this month, a record-breaking typhoon swamped Taipei, causing more than $2 billion in damage...