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...Officially the Japanese government that stopped and detained him wouldn't even confirm the identity of the man traveling as Pang Xiong, but privately everyone involved left little doubt about who he really was. Pyongyang was keeping mum on the affair, although a close contact of the regime in Tokyo insisted it "is nonsense that Kim Jong Nam would come to Japan." Immigration authorities, tipped off by British intelligence sources, stopped him at passport control and whisked him to a detention center at the airport last Tuesday. He quickly admitted to authorities that he was in fact the man nicknamed...
Everywhere you turned there was something brilliant happening. Texan Laura Wilkinson came from nowhere to win the platform diving on a broken foot. Chinese veteran Xiong Ni nailed his last dive to become the only man besides Greg Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. American volleyballers Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana kicked sand in Brazil's face at Bondi Beach. The softball and baseball tournaments were more competitive than ever. The U.S. batswomen lost thrice before storming back to win the gold, while the batsmen did the unprecedented, beating Cuba 4-0 for the title. Finally...
...springboard, old Xiong Ni kept hanging around, hanging around - fifth place, fourth, third - and then nailed his last dive and won again, just like in Atlanta. He's the Chinese guy Greg Louganis barely beat in Seoul, way back in '88, and now he's the only man beside Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. Good...
...call feng shui (phong schway) a nutty fad, but this Eastern art of furniture placement has been facilitating living room energy flow for over 4,000 years. Here, FM plays Master of Decor and points out feng shui do's and don'ts, stopping two Harvard venues from becoming xiong zai (houses of doom...
...another press conference last week, after weightlifter Zhan Xugang of China won the 154-lb. gold medal, his coach, Yang Han Xiong, was asked why Zhan added more weight to the bar in the clean and jerk (bringing it up to a world record 430 lbs.) even after he had clinched the gold medal at 424 lbs. "The Olympic spirit is faster, higher, stronger," said Yang. "So we tried...