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South Korea’s Supreme Court Denies Kim’s Appeal

MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG’s office donated $100,000 to help fund PRESIDENT BUSH’s inauguration (N.Y. POST, 1/14)....The THOROUGHBRED RACING ECONOMIC INDICATORS report released Wednesday revealed total thoroughbred purses increased 3.42%, “mostly from a limited number of sources,” in ’04, while total handle on U.S. races declined less than 1%. The purse increase “reverses trends during 2003, when total purses dropped 1.86% from the previous year” (Tom LaMarra, BLOODHORSE.com, 1/12)....Suspended IOC VP KIM UN-YONG’s final appeal on an embezzlement and bribery conviction was denied by the South Korea Supreme Court. The decision means Kim “may now face expulsion from the IOC and that he’ll have to serve the final year of his jail sentence” (AROUNDTHERINGS.com, 1/14)....EDITOR & PUBLISHER’s Joe Strupp reported “THE CHIEF,” a one-man play about late Steelers Owner ART ROONEY co-written by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist GENE COLLIER, “ended its second run two weeks ago and became the most successful production in the 30-year history of the Pittsburgh Public Theater” (EDITOR & PUBLISHER, 1/12).