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Twelve days after the epic collapse of a 500-store complex in Seoul, rescue workers came upon Yoo Ji-hwan, a surprisingly healthy 19-year-old sales clerk who had survived under the mountain of rubble on drippings of rainwater and a whole lot of moxie. Yoo was dragged from a dark pocket not far from where a 21-year-old man was pulled out alive on Sunday. (At least 24 others survived; 219 were killed.) Her mother screamed deliriously from the rescue site, "She is alive! She is alive!" and then broke down in tears. "I thought that...
...source in Tibet and the fertile delta at its mouth in Shanghai, 3,900 miles to the east, China's Yangtze River hurtles through a series of sheer chasms known as the Three Gorges. Legend has it that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region lost much...
...popped open. At the performance I attended, a few audience members got wet. When the three women who serve as the sea whip sheets at the boat members to affect a storm, the sheets came dangerously close to slapping me in the face. These three women (Anatavia Marie Brown, Ji-Ho Lee, and Bianca Hovey) played their parts with a pokerface and really wailed the cast members during the "storm...
...JI IL KWON...
...Ji H. Min '86, who also knew Zucker as an undergrad, said he thought Zucker would do well on the job because "[he] always took charge of things...