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...Consider Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, an independent Diet member elected in 2000 on a reformist platform. Instead of blasting his name from a noisy sound truck, he had shown a populist touch by riding a bicycle door-to-door soliciting votes. Now a $628 million, 68-km highway is on the drawing board, slated to slice through his home district, creating hundreds of jobs and funneling millions of dollars into rural Hyogo prefecture. It's one of thousands of wasteful highway projects?known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national deficit...
...international figure skating and the Olympic movement itself have been shaken as never before. Even before Tonya Harding went gunning for Nancy Kerrigan, figure skating had an image problem. Not on the ice. On the ice it's all double Axels and triple Salchows and Kristi Yamaguchi twirling straight onto the Wheaties box. Say all you want about the smiley dudes on their snowboards, but when it comes to making the Winter Games a global fascination and a very considerable cash machine, it's the Brian Boitanos and Michelle Kwans of the world who count most...
...athletes so far to truly claim an event for Asia, Koreans Ko Gi-Hyun, who took gold and at 15 became the youngest ever winner, and Choi Eun-Kyung, who smashed the Olympic record by six seconds in the semis. "Olympic athletes used to be role models," seethes Yosuke Yamaguchi, a former physical education instructor in Tokyo. "Now they're part athletes, part comedians...
...international figure skating and the Olympic movement itself have been shaken as never before. Even before Tonya Harding went gunning for Nancy Kerrigan, figure skating had an image problem. Not on the ice. On the ice it's all double Axels and triple Salchows and Kristi Yamaguchi twirling straight onto the Wheaties box. Say all you want about the smiley dudes on their snowboards, but when it comes to making the Winter Games a global fascination and a very considerable cash machine, it's the Brian Boitanos and Michelle Kwans of the world who count most...
...body strength to hold the edge and counter the rotation of the hips. But the fault was more glaring in Hughes because she jumps in the direction opposite that of most skaters and in a corner of the rink where judges have a better view of any technical mishaps. Yamaguchi acknowledges that all this may contribute to Hughes' being unfairly singled out by the notoriously subjective skating judges: "Sometimes judges don't live by the rules, and they opt to see it or not to see it. I think that, yes, some skaters may be more penalized than others...