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'Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning.'
NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO, Russian tennis star, criticizing the lack of off-court entertainment at Britain's storied tennis competition in an interview with Russia's Sovietsky Sport newspaper

'I ordered my bodyguards to take over because I got tired of beating them myself.'
KIM SEUNG YOUN, one of South Korea's wealthiest businessmen, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting and assaulting Seoul karaoke-bar workers who had fought with his son, a student at...

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