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Jacob Chudnovsky '01, Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00, Charles R. Riordan '01 and Tun-Kai Yang '00 of Harvard faced off against Yale's team, which included senior Michael A. Mulyar, Wolrich, first-year Ilya Meyzin and graduate student Barry H. J. Braeken in the Hall of Graduate Studies in New Haven...
After leaving his brother at the railway station, Peiji fought with the KMT and set about building a career for himself in Chiang Kai-shek's military. He spent two years in cadet school, and by 1960 he was promoted to captain. The same year he got married, but when his Taiwanese-born wife suggested they buy a house, Peiji said no. "At that time we all thought we were going back to China. What point in buying a house in Taiwan?" he says, laughing. "It was not until 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, that we changed our views...
Players at the tournament competed in open divisions or divisions based on skill level as determined by a standardized score. In the under-1600 division, Tun-Kai "T-K" Yang '00 tied for first. In the under-1400 division, Vikram Prasad, a graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, took home second place in his first tournament ever
There are those who started a movement or hitched their wagon to an idea that never quite panned out. Or the idea succeeded, but it's one that makes us uncomfortable. Chiang Kai-shek was a contender for a billion people's loyalty but played his cards wrong. Marcus Garvey preached racial separatism and opposed interracial marriage; his ideas seem almost quaint now. Whether Hugh Hefner was a pioneer of the sexual revolution or just piggybacked on it is impossible to know, but in the age of AIDS and poverty caused by out-of-wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears...
...milk and peanut-butter sandwiches, my closest third-grade friends and I watched, with fascination and terror, the grainy news footage of Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River into Korea. It was 1950, the year after Mao Zedong and the communists had taken control of China, exiling General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party to Taiwan. And now they were fighting...