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A Cupertino sheriff's deputy struck three cyclists, killing two and critically injuring a third.
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Japan is wrestling with a major sumo wrestling scandal:
Baseball bats have become standard equipment in sumo training. Young wrestlers, though, don't swing the bats. They are beaten with them.
This sadistic bit of sumo lore became common knowledge across Japan last year after a beating with a metal baseball bat, together with repeated blows from a beer bottle and multiple cigarette burns, caused the death of a 17-year-old junior wrestler named Takashi Saito.
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Not surprisingly, few people regularly read political blogs.
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