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...Yang is a relative latecomer to the game. While Woods famously putted against Bob Hope on The Mike Douglas Show when he was 2, Yang didn't even pick up a club until he was 19. The fourth of eight children in his family, he finished his mandatory 18-month stint in the Korean army at the age of 21, the same age Woods was when he won his first major. His father Yang Han-joon, a poor farmer from Jeju, far from encouraging him to play (as Tiger's late father Earl did), actively discouraged him. Han-joon said...
...down unassisted, his climbing partner, Alvaro Novellón, left Pérez with supplies and went for help. But a combination of bureaucracy, complicated logistics and poor weather impeded search efforts, and it wasn't until Aug. 14, a full six days after the pair's climbing club first received word of the accident, that a rescue operation began. Two days later, the rescue attempt was called off due to bad weather and the difficulties involved in climbing an almost unclimbable mountain in the hopes of finding Pérez alive...
...stove and a sleeping bag, as well as a realistic assessment of how long it might take for help to come. "Oscar knew it would take six or seven days for a rescue team to reach him," says Alfonso Uriel, spokesman for Peña Guara, the Huesca climbing club that has been organizing the effort. "So psychologically, he's prepared. He knows not to give up hope after just a couple of days." (Read "Blind to Failure," the story of a sightless mountaineer...
...have come for revenge. For years, I've hyperventilated at restaurant "tasting menu" checks, forfeited 1,000% markups for bottle service at clubs, neared my credit-card limit for hotel suites, paid usury to strip-club ATMs and pushed far too many chips to the dealer. On this trip, I will get a hotel room for less than the upkeep on the room, eat a meal for near what it costs to serve it and - at least according to a sign in the Cheetahs dressing room berating the strippers for undercharging - get some kind of deal in the VIP room...
...prep has become a style for a broad section of Harvard students, Stilz said. "Anybody from the richest final club president to somebody there on financial aid is typically walking around in khakis," he said. "Prep is kind of blurred into the new Harvard...