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...worth the wait. On Oct. 15, after decades of fitful starts and spectacular failures for China's space program, Lieut. Colonel Yang Liwei, a diminutive ex-fighter pilot, roared into the heavens to become China's first man in space. During his 21-hour journey in the heavens, the 38-year-old Yang maneuvered weightlessly in the tight compartment of the Shenzhou V capsule, taking photographs, naps, and at one point producing a tiny Chinese flag?an iconic image that would soon be broadcast to 1.3 billion fellow citizens back home. The mission-control room outside Beijing burst into cheers...
...presidential campaign got help from nightclub owner Lee Won Ho, currently under investigation for tax evasion, pimping and ordering the murder of a gang boss. Lee testified he helped round up 600 pro-Roh voters for the presidential primary. The allegations arose after Roh's former personal secretary, Yang Gil Seung, was filmed carousing with Lee at a nightclub in June. The administration says it conducted two internal investigations and found Yang took no bribes...
...four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul: "The President should be able to handle the scrutiny." Lee Chung Hee, a political scientist at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, says, "If the President has problems, he should solve them through consultation instead of storming off like a man possessed...
...real trick to going out on top, the way no one is able to--not Michael Jordan, not Willie Mays, not Elvis, not Woody Allen--is Larson's yin-yang combination of a slight ego and a massive self-awareness. He doesn't need to be idolized, but he doesn't want to be thought of as lame. After 2002, Larson stopped making his No. 1-selling boxed calendar, which was, essentially, a legal way to print money. "I couldn't understand why it was still doing well. I think it's one of those things that would dissolve into...
...lifestyle. Singapore is still a traditional and conservative Asian society. Gays must know that the more they lobby for public space, the bigger the backlash they will provoke from the conservative mainstream." Singaporeans have spoken out on this issue, and the boundaries have clearly been drawn. (The Rev.) Yang Tuck Yoong Singapore...