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...opened its fifth outlet in Chengdu in January, overhauled its prepared-food department to cook up the chili-laden specialties favored by natives, including marinated rabbit heads and roasted duck jaws. Samsung reopened its operation here in 2004, but it is going native. Shoppers in China's west, says Ko You Chan, Samsung's managing director for the western districts, usually expect a small gift when they make a major purchase. So Samsung liberally doles out free DVDs and other goodies. Result: sales of Samsung consumer electronics were up 50% in the region in 2006. The lesson, says Ko...
...invitational, held from Friday through Sunday at the Murr Center tennis courts, the Crimson had dominated Rice in both singles and doubles competition, while splitting matches with the University of Virginia in both singles and doubles play. The duo of senior Elsa O’Riain and sophomore Beier Ko set the tone for the Crimson in its doubles matches with Rice, defeating the Owls’ Tiffany Lee and Julie Chao 8-2. Harvard would win three out the four doubles matches it played against Rice, with the tandem of sophomore Catriona Stewart and freshman Elizabeth Brook suffering...
...featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
...nationwide speaking tour to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Burma, former political prisoner Ko Bo Kyi made his second-to-last stop at Harvard Law School on Friday. Bo Kyi, a former executive in the national student union, was imprisoned for a total of seven years for his pro-democracy protests and refusal to serve as a government informant. Bo Kyi spoke about the coerced interrogation and psychological torture that rendered many political prisoners permanently disabled. “There is no rule of law, no separation of power [in Burma],” said...
...today,” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said. “[The close win] was a little bit of a wake-up call to the fact that there are a lot of really good teams out there who we cannot take lightly.” Yesterday, freshman Beier Ko remained out of the starting lineup, while fellow freshman Laura Peterzan started despite a leg injury that kept her out of last weekend’s matches. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...