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...Harvard player’s loss to Mosolova was her first individual NCAA Championship appearance, which continues a nine-year streak of a Crimson woman earning a bid to the individual tournament. Previously, Harvard was represented by Beier Ko ’09 (2007-2009), Eva Wang ’06 (2006), Courtney Bergman ’05 (2003-2005), and Susanna Lingman...
...halt on immigration from Muslim countries - all policies likely to create new frictions with the Muslim world and even alienate the Netherlands from its European allies. If Wilders were to be part of a future government, it could usher in a crisis of credibility in Dutch politics, says Ko Colijn from the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. "The outside world does not understand Dutch politics at the moment," Colijn says. "We will lose credibility on the global stage...
...prophecy for sure, but daydreaming is the prevailing ideology in Ko's republic of verse. "I want us to understand/ That what can be salvaged from our suffering/ Is not in the shadowy hands of our religious philosophies/ But in the charge of stars, flowers/ & the blaze of autumn color," he writes in "Crimson Leaves," also from Abiding Places. The poem describes the annual turning of maples across the entirety of the Korean peninsula, from the Tumen River bordering China to Naejang Mountain in Ko's native North Jeolla province and on to Cheju Island. By early December, when...
That complex, known as Seodaemun under the Japanese who built it in 1907 to incarcerate Korean independence fighters, and where Ko spent much time for his leading role in protests against successive military governments in the 1970s and '80s, has been turned into a museum of horrors, a red-brick Grand Guignol of simulated torture chambers as chilling as Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh or Changi in Singapore. To visit is upsetting but essential if you're to see Korea the Ko Un way - that is, an experience of harmonious extremes, a bracing yin and yang of Buddhas and booze...
...iconic photo has Ko sandwiched between Kim Jong Il and South Korea's late President Kim Dae Jung, the friend and former jail mate for whom Ko penned an encomium included in Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), his 30-volume magnum opus profiling everyone he's ever met, as well as figures from Korean folklore and history. The three are toasting each other at a state banquet during the first Reunification Summit in Pyongyang in June 2000, during which Ko recited "At the Taedong River," an occasional poem that reportedly much moved the fearless Dear Leader. An earlier piece, written after...