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While the team mourned the injuries last spring, they might prove good for its long-term development. A number of young players--junior Dan Chung, sophomore Mitty Arnold and junior Howard Kim, foremost among them, got valuable experience last season. That experience should pay dividends this year...
This season the team returns everyone but Brenner and junior Erica Cheng, both of whom have decided to take a break from the game, and brings in six more players with varsity potential. They are: freshmen Mylin Torres from Georgia, Geena Suh from Minnesota, Gabriela Hricko from Dover, Julia Kim from Maryland and Anna Chai from Maine (spring season only) and sophomore transfer student Rona Mayer from Israel. Graham regrets the departures, but emphasizes the future...
Both lonely places are in some respects still locked in 1953 (the year when Fidel Castro launched his first rebel assault and when Kim Il Sung began building his ghost republic), and both are further hemmed in by their commitment to guerrilla leaders who really did help to free their people from foreign domination. Yet beneath those surface similarities, North Korea and Cuba are as different as Doctor Strangelove and Doctor Zhivago, as different as a made-to-order Stalinist dystopia where not a thought is out of place and an unruly Caribbean island that is the stuff of Marx...
When I flew into North Korea, I felt as if I had landed in another galaxy. It was not just the spotless, carless streets, the loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda at dawn, the faceless groups of people filing silently from Kim Il Sung Stadium to Kim Il Sung University to Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (all with badges of Kim Il Sung on their hearts); it was, even more, the spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held...
...eaten hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, been carried by cheering students around the Princeton campus and appeared on the Tonight Show. Though none of that ensures affection and all those memories are distant, someone who spent his honeymoon in New York City knows at least a little of America. Kim Jong Il, by comparison, is famous as the one leader who may never have met an American. And, being unable to put a face to his enemy, seems much more liable to set his cross hairs...